Telling the origin story of AI from @itsemilyhiggins
The creator tells the historical origin story of artificial intelligence, starting in 1943 with neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and mathematician Walter Pitts. She explains their theory that the human brain functions like a computing machine and that neurons, which fire in a simple on/off binary, could be modeled with a math equation, leading to their foundational paper on neural networks.
Creator: @itsemilyhiggins on Instagram
Transcript
1943, a neurophysiologist and a mathematician asked a question that would later change the world. Warren McCulloch spent decades studying human cognition, and he had this theory that the human brain actually worked like a computing machine and that the biology of our cognition could be modeled with a math equation. See, the brain is made of billions of tiny cells called neurons, but how they work is actually incredibly simple. They either fire or they don't, on or off, ones and zeros. And McCull
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