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… Minky’s book Perceptrons argued with little evidence that neural networks would not be useful. 
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..in 1969 Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published the book “Perceptrons” with a mathematical proof about the limitations of two-layer feed-forward perceptrons as well as unproven claims about the difficulty of training multi-layer perceptrons. The book’s only proven result—that linear functions cannot model non-linear ones—was trivial but the book had nevertheless a pronounced effect on research funding and, consequently, the community. – Wikipedia
Therefore, Marvin Minsky and his writing partner make …