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Late 80s was the second AI winter, it wasn't all peaches. Why do you think just a handful of people were working on neural nets?
by visarga 4y ago
Late 80s was the second AI winter, it wasn't all peaches. Why do you think just a handful of people were working on neural nets?
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y agoBecause before backpropagation (mid-80's) nobody could train multi-layer neural nets. Although to be fair, there wasn't "just a handful of people". Just look at Geoff Hinton's citations count throughout the '80s.