So connectionist approaches to AI were largely ignored until the mid-2010s, when hardware advances finally unlocked their latent potential. Finally it was cheap enough to marshal sufficient computational power and training examples for this method to excel. Between the publication of Perceptrons in 1969 and Minsky’s death in 2016, computational price-performance (adjusting for inflation) increased by a factor of about 2.8 billion.[28] This changed the landscape for what approaches were possible in AI. When I spoke to Minsky near the end of his life, he expressed regret that Perceptrons had
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