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Dude, Where’s My Neural Net? An Informal and Slightly Personal History

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These were exciting times: the Dartmouth AI conference had been held in 1956, with its promise of solving AI through symbolic methods. Second, now math happens: each of the Perceptron’s inputs gets multiplied by a weight (the values 3 and 2 in the figure above). Was there some kind of grand synthesis immanent? Not right away.