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0 pointsP-NP6y ago0 comments

I agree. It’s about accomplishments.

And let's not forget the accomplishments of the other pioneers: Lainnainmaa, the inventor of backpropagation 1970. Ivakhnenko, the inventor of the first deep learning networks that learn internal representations 1965. Fukushima, the inventor of the convolutional neural network architecture 1979. Waibel, who combined backpropagation with convolutions 1987. They are prominently mentioned in the critique in Sec. XII, XIX, XXI, XVIII, XX and others.

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p1esk6y ago· 1 in thread

To me the main accomplishments which led to the beginning of the current AI summer in 2012 are:

1. Convnet (Lecun) 2. LSTM (Schmidhuber) 3. Scaling up the convnet to win ILSVRC (Hinton)

Strictly speaking it was just 1 and 3 which jumpstarted the revolution in computer vision, but the importance of LSTM for sequence modelling (language and speech) is hard to overestimate.

P-NPOP6y ago

1. Schmidhuber's Sec. XVIII points out that the basic convnet architecture with convolutional and downsampling layers is actually due to Fukushima (1979). In 1987, NNs with convolutions were combined by Waibel with weight sharing and backpropagation, before LeCun.

3. Sec. D and XIV say that the convnet was scaled up already in 2011 through the DanNet from Schmidhuber's lab. DanNet was the first convnet to win a computer vision contest. It also was the first convnet to achieve superhuman performance and had a "monopoly on winning CV competitions." It won 4 CV contests before Hinton's AlexNet won ILSVRC.

It's true. I checked the references.

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