Heart of the Matter by Otis Kaye, 1963. The Art Institute of Chicago. Admit it or not, neural networks (or more broadly, connectionism) are being revived to readdress almost all problems in the machine learning world. Before deep learning, there were a few much smaller hypes like matrix factorization, sparse learning, and kernel methods, but none of them is comparable to this one. Never before has a learning method been so blessed by capital, yet so cursed by …