The Intelligence Age: A History of AI

From ancient automata to modern neural networks — the story of thinking machines

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700+ Years of history
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Walter Pitts

Käthe Severin, mother of Pitt an Jochen Severin, spouse of Walter Severin / CC BY-SA 4.0

Walter Pitts

computational neuroscience

  • Proposed landmark theoretical formulations of neural activity and generative processes.
  • Collaborated with Warren McCulloch to develop mathematical models of neural activity.
  • Contributed significantly to the early development of artificial neural networks.

Walter Harry Pitts Jr. was an American logician and a key figure in computational neuroscience, known for his groundbreaking work on neural networks and his collaboration with Warren McCulloch.

Milestones

  • The Paper That Invented the Artificial Neuron
    The Theoretical Foundations Research
    The Paper That Invented the Artificial Neuron

    Two scientists fused logic and neuroscience into a mathematical model of the brain, laying the theoretical bedrock for every neural network to come.

    1943
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