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neural networks

2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Jeff Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton — British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of Deep Learning' — who co-invented backpropagation, developed deep neural networks, and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics — who resigned from Google in 2023 to speak freely about AI risks.

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Jeffrey Elman

American cognitive scientist who developed the Elman network (Simple Recurrent Network) — the foundational architecture for processing sequential data including language.

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