An Old Technique Could Put Artificial Intelligence in Your Hearing Aid
An Old Technique Could Put Artificial Intelligence in Your Hearing Aid
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 28, 20177m 11s
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Show Notes
Dag Spicer is expecting a special package soon, but it’s not a Black Friday impulse buy. The fist-sized motor, greened by corrosion, is from a historic room-sized computer intended to ape the human brain. It may also point toward artificial intelligence's future. Spicer is senior curator at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The motor in the mail is from the Mark 1 Perceptron, built by Cornell researcher Frank Rosenblatt in 1958.
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