The Dangers of Being an Expert

Minsky wrote a book together with Papar that could prove that perceptrons cannot learn even XOR, the simple function. This was enough for the funding agencies to stop funding neural networks. And he also basically said that it was not his fault that the funding ended. He politically, I think, had the goal of stopping this kind of research. Why? Because people already knew what deep learning would be doing back then and it was just not funded anymore.