[zknowledge]

Was it this Geoffrey Hinton paper? It was in Scientific American in 1993.

Simulating Brain Damage:

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/sciam93.pdf

[JKCalhoun]

I don't think so. When I just asked an LLM though, the Hinton paper also came up. So it does look like a strong candidate.

If I am able to find it, I'll comment here.