29 Year-old Yann LeCun shows off the world's first Convolutional Network. This is 1989.

Ummm … is that supposed to be impressive? I built a neural net years earlier when I was still in high school, from a 1-paragraph description of ‘weights and nodes’ in Scientific American. 16-bit fixed point, running on an 8088, borrowed a B&W CMOS camera from a mate at Monash, and trained it to recognise the alphabet, hand-written - not printed like this example. Didn’t know about back propagation or bias nodes either 🤣 It only took about 30 training cycles to identify the letters accurately.

@ylecun that's not the first convolutional network

@ylecun achieving this back then is so cracked

@ylecun Little did they know, this 1989 breakthrough was just the beginning of Pandora’s AI box being unleashed.

@ylecun Truly

@ylecun Lmao it can recognize numbers big whoop haha my little cousin can do that

@ylecun This marks the beginning of a new era in Computer Vision

@ylecun Indeed

@ylecun we miss this yann

@ylecun low hanging fruit