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Professor’s perceptron paved the way for AI – 60 years too soon
- ftxbro 3y ago> "Rosenblatt’s perceptron had only one layer, while modern neural networks have millions."
- ftxbro 3y ago> "In 1969, Minsky and Seymour Papert published “Perceptrons,” a book that assailed Rosenblatt’s work and, essentially, sealed its fate. The following year, Minsky won the A.M. Turing Award - computing’s highest honor." I don't understand how explaining the limitations of a single perceptron would be relevant. To use an imperfect analogy, it would be like if you explained the limitations of a single transistor as a way to assail a microprocessor research program. Maybe you will say it's hindsight but this criticism never made sense to me. I have to imagine Minsky had some powerful charisma to pull this off.