No, because the distributedness of the representation means that exponentially large Markov chains would be needed to replace linearly growing deep models. See this paper on the recurrent temporal RBM (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utoronto.ca&#x2F;~ilya&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2008&#x2F;rtrbm.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utoronto.ca&#x2F;~ilya&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2008&#x2F;rtrbm.pdf</a>).<p>It&#x27;s like saying, &quot;aren&#x27;t binary trees just linked lists?&quot;