Marvin Minsky How I became interested in neural networks 22151

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To hear more of Marvin Minsky’s stories, go to the playlist: • Marvin Minsky - The amazing videophon... • The scientist, Marvin Minsky (1927-2016) was one of the pioneers of the field of Artificial Intelligence, having founded the MIT AI Lab in 1970. Since the 1950s, his work involved trying to uncover human thinking processes and replicate them in machines. [Listener: Christopher Sykes; date recorded: 2011] • TRANSCRIPT: I got interested in neural network ideas from reading a few papers in that great book by Nicholas Rashevsky, a book called Mathematical Biophysics, and... I’m trying to remember the year, there was… among other things he had a journal which published this first paper by McCulloch and Pitts about neural networks. Well, it was maybe the second paper on the logic of neural networks, because Sigmund Freud had actually written one in 1894 or '95, in the from of a paper called Project For A Scientific Psychology, and I believe that paper was turned down for publication, so Freud never got it published, and it wasn’t actually published till 1950. So that’s an interesting story which we should look up... get the dates right. But anyway, I started to work on trying to make... take the McCulloch-Pitts theory of how neural networks could simulate any machine, a very general theory, and I was interested in making more particular specialised theory of how to make neural networks that could learn.

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