The reason hidden units in neural nets are called hidden units is that Peter Brown told me about hidden Markov models. I decided "hidden" was a good name for those extra units, so that's where the name "hidden" comes from.

— Geoffrey Hinton Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks (2000)

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