Comment by alganet

> Reductio ad absurdum.

My dude, you came up with the Wright brothers comparison, not me. If you don't like fallacies, don't use them.

> on any reasonably powerful 90s workstation

https://hal.science/hal-03926082/document

Quoting the paper now:

> In 1989 a recognizer as complex as LeNet-5 would have required several weeks’ training and more data than were available and was therefore not even considered.

Their own words seem to match my assessment.

Training time and data availability determined how much this whole thing could advance, and researchers were aware of those limits.