32 Year-old Yann LeCun shows off the world's first Convolutional Network. This is 1993.

Akshually, this is from 1989, and I'm 29.

You were 29 when you pressed the button, and you were 32 years old when you got the results back😹🤝

@ylecun Not quite the first. TDNN was there in the 1980s.

@ylecun Technically in 1980 we had Fukushima’s “neocognitron” which we can consider as a CNN as well, @ylecun maybe you could correct if this was actually an inspiration for convolutional neural nets?

So cool

@codexeditor @ylecun Now we know where the “Hello World” equivalent in ML came from.

So real

Meh? I did something similar using plain neural nets and a B&W CMOS camera in 1986 when still in high school. 16-bit FP, no bias nodes, no hidden layers… learned the alphabet in about 40 training cycles. All based on a 1-paragraph description of ‘weights and nodes’ from a Scientific American article I found. Neural nets are neat.

@ylecun Did he know back then he would be having a social media love story with Elon Musk? 😂

@ylecun @ylecun he was my biggest inspiration for machine learning ❤️

Same