Devil to Angel

The history of neural networks, at least in its popular version, has its angels and demons. One of them is Marvin Minsky, referred to as the devil. Minsky and Papert wrote a book entitled Perceptrons (1969) in which they showed, among other things, some of the limitations of the neural networks that were popular at the time. This was interpreted by some as a very restrictive limit on all kinds of neural networks and it was interpreted by some as being the end of an era of funding for the then popular neural networks in order to make room for the more classical AI approadies promoted by Minsky and others. 

Perhaps not. You see, what screenwriters often don t know is that for every angel that sits on a game player s right shoulder, there s usually a grinning psychopathic devil on the left, who, just to be mischievous or rebellious, might attack foe and friend alike. 

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