20 Aug
2007
20 Aug
'07
1:57 p.m.
On 20 Aug 2007 at 13:35, B Degnan wrote:
I have uploaded a pdf of the article The Electronic
Brain by W.R. Ashby,
M.A., M.D. from the March 1949 issue of Radio Electronics to my web site,
along with other updates. Ashby describes the Homeostat and it's
potential for building an artificial intelligence computer.
vintagecomputer.net/electronic_brain.cfm
Thanks for a great article! I enjoyed the final section where the
author postulates how an artificial brain made from these devices
would come to direct our social order.
What this brings to mind is the work at MIT in the 50's on the
Perceptron. Great things were forecast for the technology at the
time also.
Cheers,
Chuck