1949 Book Predicted AI: Reasoning and Social Control
FrnkNlsn · x · 2026-09-02
Beyond MIT Press's 'Perceptrons', Berkeley also built robots. The 1949 book 'Giant Brains, or Machines That Think' was visionary, featuring chapters on 'Reasoning' and 'Social Control'.
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