
Yann LeCun on his Start in Research and Self-Supervised Learning
The Gradient: Perspectives on AI
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The New York Cognitron
Jeffrey Hinton: I recall when I was looking into the history of deep learning, being surprised a little bit by finding out you had this thesis that was sort of like backdrop before in famous 1986 publication. Yeah, regardless of the impact of a paper, it got you connected to Jeff and the rest is going to history. And yeah, I'm wondering when that started germinating in your head. I know there was the New York cognitron of early 80s. So yeah, kind of curious how that came about. Well, pretty early because when he was spending a lot of free time in libraries going through the literature of the 1960s,. He also looked at competition neuroscience
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