A lot of context in his own post here, and the reply from Dr. Hinton is linked: https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/critique-honda-prize-hinton.html https://peop

A lot of context in his own post here, and the reply from Dr. Hinton is linked: https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/critique-honda-prize-hinton.html https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/critique-honda-prize-hinto... I stopped reading at [backpropagation] "wasn't created by "lots of different people" but by exactly one person who published first [BP1] and therefore should get the credit". Okay, so he was the first. Brilliant insight. Hugely valuable. He should get credit for that, and I'm very sympathetic if that hasn't happened (I don't follow other research enough to make any strong statement about if he has or hasn't received appropriate recognition). But that was 50 years ago and many equally insightful and impactful developments have gotten us to the point where backpropagation is being done in a practical way. "Exactly one person" is ridiculous.