The key result is not the introduction of ReLU, this is a misdirection. The key result is the outstanding performance on a general image data set by Alexnet. If the predecessors did all of the work, why was Hinton's lab the first to produce these results.
ReLU is an absurdly simple gate. The question revolved around its effectiveness, which was proven by Hintons lab.
The key result is the outstanding performance on imagenet. If Schmidhuber was the actual pioneer, why wasn't he able produce the same results before Hinton?
NN were known to work for hand writing recognition since the 90s (including papers by Hinton). Dannet being able to do it for Chinese characters in 2010s is unremarkable.
ReLU is an absurdly simple gate. The question revolved around its effectiveness, which was proven by Hintons lab.
The key result is the outstanding performance on imagenet. If Schmidhuber was the actual pioneer, why wasn't he able produce the same results before Hinton?
NN were known to work for hand writing recognition since the 90s (including papers by Hinton). Dannet being able to do it for Chinese characters in 2010s is unremarkable.