Great article. I lived through the early days of artificial neural networks. I was on a DARPA advisory panel for neural network tooling in the mid 1980s, wrote

Great article. I lived through the early days of artificial neural networks. I was on a DARPA advisory panel for neural network tooling in the mid 1980s, wrote the first version of the SAIC ANSim commercial product, and created the simple back-prop model that was deployed in the bomb detector my company built under contract to the FAA. I also managed a ‘conventional’ deep learning team at Capital One 5-6 years ago. My world has been very exciting in the last 18 months. I spend as much time as I can exploring self hosted LLMs, APIs from Hugging Face, OpenAI, etc. My mind is blown even thinking about tech 33 years from now!