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We didn't have big enough compute and data to do interesting things with them until recently. That changed with ImageNet in 2012

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/03/1011616/ai-godfa...

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Sort of- Yann LeCun had working neural network based letter recognition, used by the Post Office.

That's a fair point to make. It was impressive what they achieved with 90s hardware. Of course OCR to general object recognition is a big gap in how interesting it is.

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