Geoffrey Hinton has not sat down since 2005, so he travels to a Lake Tahoe casino by bus and train, lying across the back seat, to auction a company with three employees. What the bidders want is an idea his field buried twice. The chapter builds it from one artificial nerve cell with three knobs, through the staircase light that a single cell cannot work, to blame passed backwards. Then Fei-Fei Li, advised to find a project that would get her tenure, photographs the dictionary with the help of forty-nine thousand strangers.
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- In this chapter
- Geoffrey Hinton, Frank Rosenblatt, Marvin Minsky, David Rumelhart, Yann LeCun, Fei-Fei Li, Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever
- The idea it builds
- A nerve cell as a weighted vote with a bar to clear; learning as nudging the knobs; blame for an error passed backwards through layers.