He’d’ve probably been surprised to see people just… using it for stuff like DoTA2 on fully-differentiable BPTT RNNs. I wonder if he’s ever done any interviews on DL recently? AFAIK he’s still alive.
Oh dang! RIP. I guess there’s a lesson there—probably more effort should be put into interviewing the pioneers of connectionism & related fields right now, while they have some perspective and before they all die off.
Sadly, Williams passed away this February: https://www.currentobituary.com/member/obit/282438
Oh dang! RIP. I guess there’s a lesson there—probably more effort should be put into interviewing the pioneers of connectionism & related fields right now, while they have some perspective and before they all die off.