Meet the 1951 Theseus by the astonishing Claude Shannon of @BellLabs.
A maze-solving mouse with 99 relays for its brain—mouse of X-Y motors & reed switches.
It solved massive routing issues for making calls.
It is the antecedent to all machine learning and AI we have—today.pic.twitter.com/XJpbdfEmwu
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @BellLabs
Genius level
#polymaths like Claude Shannon and Richard Feynman are some of my favourite people to read about and study.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
Replying to @Wildreamz @BellLabs
Indeed. I have been fortunate to have met both in my life. Claude was so gracious with his time. A razor sharp creative thinker even in his later years.
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