Why didn't neural networks work back in 1986

Cosmin Negruseri
29 mai 2016

Neural nets have been around for quite some time. Why are they working now?

Here's a slide from Geoffrey Hinton's talk that addresses this question:

I recommend the whole talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcOMKXAw5VA&feature=youtu.be&t=21m29s