> It seems that you simply took the "hyped headlines" for the whole of the work.
Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's odd that there haven't been any major headlines (customer interest, competitors' announcements, etc) other than their initial demo. Good to hear it's being worked on though!
Did we not play with MNIST and placed some calculated bet on NNs well before Yann LeCun started the fire with the explosive success of the Convolutional NNs?
I'd say it pretty consistently starts in the underground.
The real revolution in the context is that it /could/ be done practically - overcoming the hurdles. But for what the interest in the matter is concerned, I'd say there almost cannot be a greater interest at this stage: making NNs efficient. This must be absolutely evident, as evident it is that the separation of memory and processor is against the idea of NNs, as evident as it is that multiplication is achievable just physically.
Of course many have seen that and got on studying it. As soon as it will be optimally practical...