Who says this? The wikipedia article you link is very short on citations, but very long on vague invocations of "some critics", without ever citing those "some

Who says this? The wikipedia article you link is very short on citations, but very long on vague invocations of "some critics", without ever citing those "some critics". Those are all the hallmarks of a rumour of the kind that spread on the internet, based on nothing else than half-digested information and a thirst for controversies. It should be noted that Minsky, himself, was a connectionist who worked on neural networks, as well as other approaches to AI. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_neural_analog_reinforcement_calculator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_neural_analog_reinf... I don't think most people who repeat those claims about Perceptrons have even read the book and really know what it says, other than from second- or third-hand sources (i.e. something someone once posted on twitter). The entire book, in pdf format, can be downloaded from here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/book/8076704 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/book/8076704 It's a whole book and not a blog post so it takes some reading. Alternatively, there is the introduction to the 1988 reissue with a short foreword by Leon Botu, focusing on the history of the book and its repercussions here: https://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/perceptrons-2017.pdf https://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/perceptrons-2017.pd... And a review of the book with more technical information here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019995870904092?ref=cra_js_challenge&fr=RR-1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001999587...