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A Conversation Between Terry Sejnowski & Stephen Wolfram (February 14, 2023) [Part 1]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Big Moment for Neural Nets, 1943 McCulloch and Pitts

In 1943, McCulloch and Pitts published a paper showing that neurons can universally compute. It introduced the idea that the brain might compute something like a computer. And at least that's my impression of the sort of the big moment for neural nets.

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