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Re:A profile of Geoffrey Hinton (2018) by 52-6F-62 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @03:17PM (#20789104)
> In the late ’50s, a Cornell scientist named Frank Rosenblatt had proposed the world’s first neural network machine. It was called the Perceptron, and it had a simple objective—to recognize images.

This is right in the article. They don't attribute neural networks to Hinton—they just note that he worked with them.

Re:A profile of Geoffrey Hinton (2018) by TheGrassyKnoll on Saturday August 24, 2019 @03:41PM (#20789257)