Connectionists: Scientific Integrity, the 2021 Turing Lecture, etc.

[Barak A. Pearlmutter]

> "The great expectations in the press (Fig. 3) were dashed by Minsky and
Papert (7),

Just to be clear, below are some of those "great expectations in the press"
that Minsky and Papert were referring to. The first I've included is
actually by Rosenblatt. So, Minsky and Papert were wrong in their
self-declared intuition that learning in multilayer systems wouldn't be
possible. Maybe evidence was even available before they wrote that
paragraph, although they were apparently not aware of it. But Rosenblatt
was wrong too, in his predictions. And he wasn't pitching it as his
intution: he said it was a done deal, a fait accompli! So looking back,
both were wrong. But who was *more* wrong?

--Barak.

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