In the days that followed his Japanese lunch with Larry Page, as he typed up a formal pitch for the Google founder, this became a pillar of his proposal. He told Page that deep learning would not only provide image recognition and machine translation and natural language understanding, but would also push machines toward true intelligence. Before the year was out, the project was approved. It was called Project Marvin, in a nod to Marvin Minsky. Any irony was unintended.
