A 1986 neural-net experiment that reportedly surprised Marvin Minsky

Yann LeCun recalls attending his first US conference in June 1986, visiting MIT and meeting Marvin Minsky. Minsky was surprised, LeCun says, that he had trained a neural net to multiply two binary numbers. Quoting LeCun, another commentator likened the Connection Machine to a huge GPU with one-bit processors running something like shaders, while acknowledging the analogy's limits.