Understanding Hinton's Capsule Networks. Part I: Intuition.

CNNs (convolutional neural networks) are awesome. They are one of the reasons deep learning is so popular today. They can do amazing things that people used to think computers would not be capable of doing for a long, long time. Nonetheless, they have their limits and they have fundamental drawbacks. Let us consider a very simple and non-technical example. We have the face oval, two eyes, a nose and a mouth.