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Backpropagation: The Engine Behind Modern AI
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An accessible, concise tour of backpropagation: how the forward pass computes outputs, how the backward pass uses the chain rule to compute gradients efficiently, and why caching intermediates matters. A quick history from 1960s-70s precursors to Werbos, Rumelhart–Hinton–Williams' 1986 breakthrough, with NETtalk and TD-Gammon as milestones. We also discuss limitations like local minima and vanishing/exploding gradients, and what these mean for today’s huge models. Brought to you by Embersilk.
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