“Zero success” seems a bit strong. People have been able to get 96% accuracy on MINST digits on their local machine. https://norse.github.io/notebooks/mnist_cl

“Zero success” seems a bit strong. People have been able to get 96% accuracy on MINST digits on their local machine. https://norse.github.io/notebooks/mnist_classifiers.html https://norse.github.io/notebooks/mnist_classifiers.html I think it may be more accurate to say “1970s level neural net performance”. The evidence suggests it is a nascent field of research.