Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 02:27:47 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   I did have a few posts with Minsky as his vision was falling apart.
   He did admit that he'd totally underestimated the problem. A few
   transistors did NOT replace 600 million years of evolutionary
   experiments - 'intelligence'/'self' was really deep/complex with
   endless fuzzy processing and pattern matching steps between 'I' and
   'O'.

https://historyof.ai/snarc/

Some tubes, milsurp gyropilots, a couple of chain driven pots, and I'm
good to go...   He would have been in his early 20s when you figure you've
got the world by the balls.

I do find the attempts to model neurophysiology fascinating. I was about
20 years too early or I probably would have wound up in cognitive science.