Yann LeCun et al. on AI
2 quotes from Yann LeCun et al. on the wall, 1998, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Proceedings of the IEEE.
No learning technique can succeed without a minimal amount of prior knowledge
Yann LeCun and colleagues at AT&T Labs, in their November 1998 paper on convolutional networks for reading handwritten digits and bank checks.
Proceedings of the IEEEGradient-Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition
Rely more on real data and less on hand-crafted feature extraction
Yann LeCun and colleagues at AT&T Labs explaining why learning from data was overtaking hand-built pattern recognition, in their November 1998 paper.
Proceedings of the IEEEGradient-Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition