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Re:Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Publishes New Deep ... by deanCommie on Thursday January 12, 2023 @06:45PM (#34361955)
The backpropagation paper was published in 1986.

It took >20 years for it to be right.

Maybe we ought to give this one some time?

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Re:Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Publishes New Deep ... by kwooding on Thursday January 12, 2023 @08:48PM (#34362954)
Not sure what you mean by >20 years to be right. I built and trained a 3-layer back-propagating neural net to do OCR on an Apple 2 in 1989 based on that paper. Admittedly, just the 26 upper case characters. But it clearly worked better than the alternatives.
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