>Doesn't it though. Someone from the 1800s would probably absolutely think it does. Convolutional networks and neural nets in general are cool, but hardly magi

>Doesn't it though. Someone from the 1800s would probably absolutely think it does. Convolutional networks and neural nets in general are cool, but hardly magical. It’s just glorified curve-fitting. A person from the 1800’s would not be all that impressed with the idea. (What’s impressive is the bread-and-butter of it... namely, the technology that enables the millions of simple calculations per millisecond.)