A Quick History of Neural Nets: From Inglorious to Incredible

Following neural net research from the 1940s to present day.

Star Trek: The Next Generation / Netflix screenshot

Lauren Holzbauer was an Insight Fellow in Summer 2018.

“Although neural nets do solve a few toy problems, their powers of computation are so limited that I am surprised anyone takes them seriously as a general problem-solving tool.” —…

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