neural nets

also referred to as: neural net

3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Steven Sinofsky · across every show →

Everything said about neural nets, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sinofsky: Stacking neural networks via Geoffrey Hinton's innovations drove modern AI
“What's happening right now, and since the innovations of Jeff Hinton, have been the ability to pile on a bunch of neural nets, one on top of another. And so maybe you dive in that like that, because that's the big math advance.”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:05 a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Chen: Neural networks are trivially fooled by subtle noise in images
“So one really interesting thing is if you feed Pictures into a neural net and you tune in. You can defeat the categorization fairly trivially by introducing noise in the data, and the really interesting thing is you introduce the noise, you look at the resulti…”
Frank Chen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:11 a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
Aug 25, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Sinofsky: Geoffrey Hinton could not get neural net funding in 1989
“In, in, like, in 1989, like, Hinton couldn't get funded trying to do neural nets.”
Steven Sinofsky Aug 25, 2025 ▶ 10:29 Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
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