Schmidhuber Traces Roots: First Modern CNN Born in Japan in 1988
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-08-13
Jürgen Schmidhuber shared insights into the early history of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). He highlighted that the first modern backprop-trained CNN for vision was published in Japan in 1988 by Chinese researcher Wei Zhang and colleagues. Zhang later brought the tech to Silicon Valley, earning FDA approval in 1998 for radiology's first AI, which now reads over 10 million mammograms annually in the US.
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