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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People only discovered that multi-layer non-linear neural networks work at the 90s. It's not really reasonable to equate perceptrons with the stuff people use today.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Obviously there have been major improvements over the past 80 years, but that's still considered the first neural network. The need for multi-layer neural networks was recognized by 1969, but the knowledge of how to do that took awhile to be worked out.