It's not just neural networks,... and the ultimate fraud artist (G. Hinton)

Certainly,  did not invent any of it.  If any of you Canadian idiots bothered to figure this out, Prof.  B. Widrow of Stanford first published the (neural net) concept in 1960, and since then, their  have been literally 100's of thousands papers on the subject, published through 10,000's of conference's, world -wide.  G. Hinton's attempt to claim some sort of dominance on this is beyond disgusting, yet another very minor varient, considering also, that he is an ugly chicken faced... incompetent, idiot.

Soo.... technology in this very important field, has devolved into little more than petty politics..  Ain't it the way..

And good luck to all of you !