The 2022 wooden mechanical neural network resurfaces, sparking garden-LLM musings
Michael_D_Moor · x · 2026-11-11
Michael Moor highlights the 2022 "mechanical neural network" — an all-wooden device simulating weights and training via cantilevered beams and tunable links. He jokes about having a wooden LLM in the garden to talk to in a post-internet era, and muses that wind could randomly stimulate it like kinetic art, with no human or electrical input needed.
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