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If you think that's cool, you might also be interested to know that Marvin Minsky programmed a neural network all the way back in 1951: https://en.m.wikipedia.o
by briga 9y ago
If you think that's cool, you might also be interested to know that Marvin Minsky programmed a neural network all the way back in 1951: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_neural_analog_reinforcement_calculator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_neural_analog_rei...
- jeffwass 9y agoAnybody know when the term "Neural Net" first appeared? Just read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", published in '66, and there are a couple of mentions of "neural nets".
- briga 9y agoMcColloch and Pitts and are generally credited with the theoretical foundations of artificial neurons in the 40s, and around that time Hebb was doing some pioneering work on activation potentials, but traces of the idea can be found as far back as James's Principles of Psychology.
- jeffwass 9y agoThanks, but I mean specifically the term "neural net". Saw some older papers mention artificial neutrons but interested when they used the term 'net'
- testvox 9y agoThe primary paper by McColloch and Pitts is "A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" (1943) it doesn't use exactly the term "neural net" but it mentions nets, networks, and "nervous nets". But it seems like the term "nervous net" goes back to the 19th century as a description of primitive neural arrangements in biology.