The Next Generation of Neural Networks [Google Tech Talk]

I was a bit disappointed that he didn't mention Kohonen's self-organizing maps, another interesting unsupervised method, or independent component analysis, which was also used successfully for image feature extraction.

Som was also used for a similar document mapping task, the demo is online here: http://websom.hut.fi/websom/milliondemo/html/root.html

You're not going to get a more up-to-date state of the field than from Hinton. Plus, their approach works on real world problems - they're consistently at the top of the Netflix leaderboard.

the making of the 2 and 5 was pretty cool; how far advanced are techniques for content generation?

Any texts on the subject available? Watching a one hour video requires a lot of patience...

I mean not texts on neural networks, but on this next generation thing.

this makes me want to figure out how to make a neural network.. of the 20% i understood, very interesting.

Nice that YouTube's player can finally skip forward.