Across the field, neural networks showed up in less than 5 percent of all published research papers. When submitting papers to conferences and journals, hoping to improve their chances of success, some researchers would replace the words “neural network” with very different language, like “function approximation” or “nonlinear regression.” Yann LeCun removed the word “neural” from the name of his most important invention. “Convolutional neural networks” became “convolutional networks.”
