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We’ve been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958

  • Written by Danielle Williams, Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy of Science, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
imageFrank Rosenblatt with the Mark I Perceptron, the first artificial neural network computer, unveiled in 1958.National Museum of the U.S. Navy/Flickr

A roomsize computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced to the world in 1958 in a brief news story buried deep in The New York Times. The story cited the U.S. Navy as...

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