Schmidhuber Traces the First Backprop CNN for Vision to 1988
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-08-15
Jürgen Schmidhuber tweeted about the history of the first modern backprop-trained CNN for vision, published in 1988 in Japan by Wei Zhang et al. Wei Zhang brought the technology to Silicon Valley, leading to FDA approval in 1998 for radiology's first AI system, which reads over 10 million mammograms per year in the US.
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