Ronald J. Williams

We're unpacking this really legendary paper published in the journal Nature.

It was written by David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, and Ronald Williams.

A truly foundational text.

"Learning Representations by Backpropagating Errors."

Exactly.

You are interacting directly with the mathematical descendants of the ideas laid out in this exact 1986 document.

But to really grasp the magnitude of what Hinton, Rumelhart, and Williams achieved, I feel like we have to look at the, uh, the dark ages they were working in.

The AI winter.