Si Dawson . Com » Neural-Networks http://sidawson.com Self Improving Software. Evolutionary Algorithms. Weak AI. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:02:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Next Generation of Neural Networks http://sidawson.com/2008/07/next-generation-of-neural-networks.html http://sidawson.com/2008/07/next-generation-of-neural-networks.html#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:17:00 +0000 Si http://sidawson.com/?p=7 Given that I spent five+ years of my life in the early 90′s doing nothing but eat, drink & dream neural networks, this Google talk by Geoffrey Hinton (one of the giants of nnets) was one of the most stimulating, exciting & thought provoking things I’ve ever seen. Plus he seems like a hell of a nice guy – has a great sense of humour.

It’s an hour long, but well worth allocating the time to watch. [No embed available, unfortunately]

If you’re in a rush, here’s the key bit:

You’re very welcome. No need to thank me :)

It is, however, singularly awesome – took him 17 years to figure out, so appreciate it, damn it!

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