If you trace back from AlexNet you get to this 1979 NeoCognitron thing by Kunihiko Fukushima as the earliest candidate for ancestor of modern ML 🧐. Is this generally acknowledged? I just traced back from Wikipedia
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It's certainly extremely well known. Earliest candidate? Certainly not, goes back decades earlier.
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Ah, so you mean early neural nets work, not ML. Work on statistical ML models of language goes back to circa 1950, for instance, and really looks remarkably modern in some ways.
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One of my coworkers said he was working on neural nets in the '80s and (joked?) about putting them in rice cookers.
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Don’t rice cookers run on fuzzy logic? I think of that as NN-lite.
TIL some rice cookers today run on fuzzy logic. That's already more complex than I expected them to be.
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