Hot take: The real root of the current AI boom is a master thesis from university of Toronto. The thesis demonstrated that neural networks much longer than be

Hot take: The real root of the current AI boom is a master thesis from university of Toronto. The thesis demonstrated that neural networks much longer than before could be trained by simply having a random fraction of the neurons excluded during forward and back propagation. That's how we got practical deep neural networks. Without that we would still be in AI winter.