There was a neural net popularity surge in the late 80s, early 90s. Of course, the hardware wasn't there yet to be able to deliver on the promises. I was in a G

There was a neural net popularity surge in the late 80s, early 90s. Of course, the hardware wasn't there yet to be able to deliver on the promises. I was in a Goodwill book section about a year ago and there were a couple of NN books from that era on sale for $3, one titled "Apprentices of Wonder: Inside the Neural Network Revolution" from 1990 and the other was for programmers and included C code for a NN to predict the stock market from 1989. Anyway, that all had died out by about '92 or '93 and NNs were a pretty dead academic topic until about 2005 or so when they figured out that GPUs could be used to accelerate them.