Frank 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 ...

Before the term artificial intelligence was coined in 1955, there were glimmers of AI’s potential in folklore, fiction, and the early engineering feats of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These ...

Episode: 3343 Frank Rosenblatt’s perceptron and the quest to design machines that can learn. Today, the origin of learning in artificial neural networks.

It was supposed to read and write, walk and talk, and understand the world. It was supposed to think deep thoughts and learn from its mistakes. Hell, it was even supposed to reproduce. But it wasn’t ...