Why the Father of AI Died Unknown

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Walter Pitts should be a household name but tragic circumstances led him to fade into obscurity. Try brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription
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1:00 Principal Mathematica 2nd edition 1927 on sale: www.ebay.com/itm/334565382999
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  • @Newsthink
    @Newsthink3 ай бұрын

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  • @sonamtashi7855

    @sonamtashi7855

    3 ай бұрын

    I would love to see a biography of Leonhard Euler.

  • @sammypwn6732

    @sammypwn6732

    3 ай бұрын

    Larry , Sergey and Google

  • @artcurious807

    @artcurious807

    3 ай бұрын

    wow, MIT dropped the ball hard on this one. what a petty dispute started by a woman who wasnt even a scientist or engineer. basically delayed neural networks by 30 yrs or more.

  • @mpd8633

    @mpd8633

    3 ай бұрын

    I'd love to see a biography of the inventor of the washing machine. Don't know what my life would be without one.

  • @MrGunderfly
    @MrGunderfly3 ай бұрын

    the challenges that walter faced in being rejected by his father figure, and after discovering that his initial theories of central brain function were overly simplistic, could have been overcome. absent was a depth and strength of character, a resilience and determination that he needed. he had little ability to deal with failure. just as he ran away from problems he could not solve as a child, he ran away from the these of his adult life as well, not realizing that with determination, he might have overcome these setbacks to unlock a new level of success and satisfaction. these are the lessons one learns when one has a strong upbringing in a patient and caring family. it is so sad that walter missed out on this upbringing. a lesson for us all about family.

  • @opensource32

    @opensource32

    3 ай бұрын

    You are right but high intelligence always try to ignore silly promblems like your teen life or some conversations which you think are pointless 🤔😏😉😮

  • @dunar1005

    @dunar1005

    3 ай бұрын

    It’s rather that society, as a whole creates those conditions for men like him. Giving them no understanding about emotional regulation. And even criticizing them for having any. This is not something you can build resilience and determination or strength on it. And saying that he “ just” lacked those abilities is basically basically saying “man up bro”

  • @STEAMerBear

    @STEAMerBear

    2 ай бұрын

    There’s an adjacent lesson here for the colleagues and coworkers of such people: even if you hate their “antics,” be as kind and supportive as possible-NUTURE THAT GENIUS! I have worked with some profoundly brilliant people that others called AH, cold, heartless, clueless, awkward, scattered, obsessive, paranoid, etc.. In fact, all of them may have suffered from cognitive or mental health issues; however, their contributions were nonetheless phenomenal. Today a vast army of lame bullies controls publicity and corporate/academic/public policy. They seek to discredit anyone who genuinely thinks for themselves, often as being cognitively impaired or mentally ill. A list of outcasts were they alive today reads like a comprehensive who’s who of human achievement. Compassion and patience are vital aspects of working with genius (perhaps most of all-and most difficult-when absent in a particular genius).

  • @Theoryofcatsndogs
    @Theoryofcatsndogs3 ай бұрын

    So a great man's failure is because of a jealous woman?

  • @subinsahayam
    @subinsahayam3 ай бұрын

    McCulloch-Pitts Neuron, 1943. Just dropping that name there. I start teaching my deep learning course with that model. A great starting point.

  • @SilveyGalaxy
    @SilveyGalaxy2 ай бұрын

    I'm so glad videos like this are made to give awesome people the attention that they deserve may he rest in peace

  • @l.c.3150
    @l.c.31503 ай бұрын

    Thin line between genius and madness. Maybe a lot of betrayal trauma.

  • @lawrencefrost9063
    @lawrencefrost90633 ай бұрын

    Losing your curiosity about the world is scary. That's like my main thing. Without curiosity what motivates me to explore reality? Why get up in the morning?

  • @setniwv_k
    @setniwv_k3 ай бұрын

    Sad how the main people that deserve the recognition are kept in the dark, while the people that didn't do anything are giving the recognition

  • @user-th5ui4ib3y

    @user-th5ui4ib3y

    Ай бұрын

    Sadly, seems to be a life lesson. Have seen this on a smaller scale many times.

  • @macbetabetamac8998
    @macbetabetamac89983 ай бұрын

    Another story of how human emotion and jealousy destroys scientific development. So sad.

  • @ferramirez4570
    @ferramirez45703 ай бұрын

    I loved him in Forrest Gump!

  • @blackmamba677

    @blackmamba677

    3 ай бұрын

    Did he?

  • @mktwatcher
    @mktwatcher3 ай бұрын

    Very good and sad review of Walter Pitts and his contribution to getting AI rolling way before it was called A.I.

  • @saulgoodman1620
    @saulgoodman16203 ай бұрын

    How sad that he is not famous with setting the stage for big corporations to make us all jobless and poor. I am sure he would have offed himself at the moment he learned that.

  • @user-th5ui4ib3y

    @user-th5ui4ib3y

    Ай бұрын

    that will not happen, I can assure you

  • @saulgoodman1620

    @saulgoodman1620

    Ай бұрын

    Are you a close friend with the Rothschilds @@user-th5ui4ib3y

  • @pr-ji1ni
    @pr-ji1ni2 ай бұрын

    It's fascinating that you would use this AI humanoid at 1:34 to narrate a documentary about one of the fathers of AI. It's like a little family reunion!

  • @rameshwarrathod3110
    @rameshwarrathod31103 ай бұрын

    Make a video about Warren Sturgis mcCulloch and about his life.

  • @zhizn_snake
    @zhizn_snakeАй бұрын

    This is part of the reason why it's better to never even try alcohol. You never know if and when life will throw something at you that makes you too thirsty for it.

  • @plica06
    @plica06Ай бұрын

    AI must have had about 50 Fathers.

  • @ll-bz8re
    @ll-bz8re3 ай бұрын

    Tragic.

  • @per619
    @per6193 ай бұрын

    Wonderful.

  • @STEAMerBear
    @STEAMerBear2 ай бұрын

    This story offers a good example of convergent human discoveries and breakthroughs with other such stories. Newton and Leibniz simultaneously finding the calculus is another. I say this because my father’s development of expert/learning systems in industry is also considered to be pioneering AI work.

  • @user-th5ui4ib3y

    @user-th5ui4ib3y

    Ай бұрын

    Who was your father? Herbert Simon? Probably not, but no other scientist with similar ideas comes to my mind. But in the case of Pitts, I guess him reading the Principia Mathematica was influential, his logical formulas bear some resembles to the formalism from this book.

  • @STEAMerBear

    @STEAMerBear

    Ай бұрын

    @@user-th5ui4ib3y Michael Seigel at AIC. He wrote a learning program that would solve tic-tac-toe after about 600 games. Then his team applied a slight variant to its game theory learning and produced a checkers engine in 1967 (that work eventually suggested checkers had an actual solution when it started converging on a finite number of sequences no matter how the human played). His company was not scientifically minded as much as business-minded. He moved into a VP chair, then SVP, the EVP before taking over MIS at Chrysler. Despite his division being mainly about financial accountancy, people there were working on speech recognition in 1983. I bet many other IS execs were a lot like him: engineering backgrounds, creative and tenacious. We’ll probably never know more than 5% of the people (esp. outside of academia) who facilitated most of the major technological breakthroughs in the last 60 years.

  • @HelloWorlds__JTS
    @HelloWorlds__JTS3 ай бұрын

    I'm just here waiting for complaints to roll in over the mispronunciation of von Neumann.

  • @Newsthink

    @Newsthink

    3 ай бұрын

    Whoops, probably should have pronounced the Hungarian way

  • @user-th5ui4ib3y

    @user-th5ui4ib3y

    Ай бұрын

    @@NewsthinkNeumann is actually a German name.

  • @passamanibr7028
    @passamanibr70283 ай бұрын

    fire vid

  • @vipinsharma9917
    @vipinsharma99173 ай бұрын

    well that how much knows about Artificial intelligence the concept first provided by ALEN TURING.

  • @user-fj7vb8vk3d
    @user-fj7vb8vk3d3 ай бұрын

    Tom hanks !!!

  • @hilonglong
    @hilonglong3 ай бұрын

    Whoever decided to change Cindy’s lighting should be fired.

  • @Newsthink

    @Newsthink

    3 ай бұрын

    Too dark? We’re experimenting

  • @hilonglong

    @hilonglong

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Newsthink bottom light up is a perfect recipe of a horror movie. 😢

  • @a.karthikraja3775
    @a.karthikraja37753 ай бұрын

    Talk about some unknown physicist .I liked those vid

  • @tarazan3456
    @tarazan34563 ай бұрын

    Artificial neural network (ANN) will never lead to artificial general intelligence (AGI)... You get numbers that do not mean much, which means not possible to understand and evolve... In the long run ANN will turn out to be a mistake and replaced by something else...

  • @pauldannelachica2388
    @pauldannelachica23883 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @vinniepeterss
    @vinniepeterss3 ай бұрын

    ❤❤

  • @animakias26
    @animakias263 ай бұрын

    😢

  • @jmtradbr
    @jmtradbr3 ай бұрын

    So now Twitter people have someone to hate.

  • @MichaelBrochill-bz6vh
    @MichaelBrochill-bz6vh3 ай бұрын

    make a video from L.L Zamehof

  • @Gaxi2
    @Gaxi23 ай бұрын

    Sounds kinda unprivileged genius.

  • @Gaxi2
    @Gaxi23 ай бұрын

    Nope you don't know how you know

  • @corners1733
    @corners17333 ай бұрын

    ok

  • @wasimshaikh1665
    @wasimshaikh16653 ай бұрын

    Great video but brain doesn't work like computer iff you think about it, it's actually opposite of a computer.

  • @neoepicurean3772

    @neoepicurean3772

    Ай бұрын

    Define 'computer'.

  • @Theweekndin
    @Theweekndin3 ай бұрын

    Nikola Tesla 👽

  • @djanzylphotograpyoasis1644
    @djanzylphotograpyoasis16443 ай бұрын

    Here first ❤

  • @HoTrEtArDeDcHiXx
    @HoTrEtArDeDcHiXx3 ай бұрын

    Hey I can take a hint 😉

  • @brytonkalyi277
    @brytonkalyi2773 ай бұрын

    _★:_ I believe we are meant to be like Jesus in our hearts and not in our flesh. But be careful of AI, for it knows only things of the flesh such as our fleshly desires and cannot comprehend things of the Spirit such as true love and eternal joy that comes from obeying God's Word [Galatians 5:16-26]. Man is a spirit and has a soul but lives in a body which is flesh. When you go to bed it is the flesh that sleeps, but your spirit never sleeps and that is why you have dreams, unless you have died in peace physically. More so, true love that endures and last is a thing of the heart. When I say 'heart', I mean 'spirit'. But fake love, pretentious love, love with expectations, love for classic reasons, love for material reasons (love because of material needs) and love for selfish reasons those are things of the flesh. In the beginning God said let us make man in our own image, according to our likeness. Take note, God is Spirit and God is Love. As Love He is the source of it. We also know that God is Omnipotent, for He creates out of nothing and He has no beginning and has no end. That means, our love is but a shadow of God's Love. True love looks around to see who is in need of your help, your smile, your possessions, your money, your strength, your quality time. Love forgives and forgets. Love wants for others what it wants for itself. However, true love works in conjunction with other spiritual forces such as patience and faith - in the finished work of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, rather than in what man has done such as science, technology and organizations which won't last forever. To avoid sin and error which leads to the death of your body and your spirit-soul in hell fire (second death), you must make God's Word the standard for your life, not AI. If not, God will let you face AI on your own (with your own strength) and it will cast the truth down to the ground, it will be the cause of so much destruction like never seen before, it will deceive many and take many captive in order to enslave them into worshipping it and abiding in lawlessness. We can only destroy ourselves but with God all things are possible. God knows us better because He is our Creater and He knows our beginning and our end. The prove texts can be found in the book of John 5:31-44, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Daniel 2, Daniel 7-9, Revelation 13-15, Matthew 24-25 and Luke 21. *HOW TO MAKE GOD'S WORD THE STANDARD FOR YOUR LIFE?* You must read your Bible slowly, attentively and repeatedly, having this in mind that Christianity is not a religion but a Love relationship. It is measured by the love you have for God and the love you have for your neighbor. Matthew 5:13 says, "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men." Our spirits can only be purified while in the body (while on earth) but after death anything unpurified (unclean) cannot enter Heaven Gates. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God [Matthew 5:8]. No one in his right mind can risk or even bare to put anything rotten into his body nor put the rotten thing closer to the those which are not rotten. Sin makes the heart unclean but you can ask God to forgive you, to save your soul, to cleanse you of your sin, to purify your heart by the blood of His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ which He shed here on earth because Isaiah 53:5 says, "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed". Meditation in the Word of God is a visit to God because God is in His Word. We know God through His Word because the Word He speaks represent His heart's desires. Meditation is a thing of the heart, not a thing of the mind. Thinking is lower level while meditation is upper level. You think of your problems, your troubles but inorder to meditate, you must let go of your own will, your own desires, your own ways and let the Word you read prevail over thinking process by thinking of it more and more, until the Word gets into your blood and gains supremacy over you. That is when meditation comes - naturally without forcing yourself, turning the Word over and over in your heart. You can be having a conversation with someone while meditating in your heart - saying 'Thank you, Jesus...' over and over in your heart. But it is hard to meditate when you haven't let go of offence and past hurts. Your pain of the past, leave it for God, don't worry yourself, Jesus is alive, you can face tomorrow, He understands what you are passing through today. Begin to meditate on this prayer day and night (in all that you do), "Lord take more of me and give me more of you. Give me more of your holiness, faithfulness, obedience, self-control, purity, humility, love, goodness, kindness, joy, patience, forgiveness, wisdom, understanding, calmness, perseverance... Make me a channel of shinning light where there is darkness, a channel of pardon where there is injury, a channel of love where there is hatred, a channel of humility where there is pride..." The Word of God becomes a part of us by meditation, not by saying words but spirit prayer (prayer from the heart). Take note, God is Spirit and those who worship Him should do so in spirit and truth (genuinely by living the Word). When the Word becomes a part of you, it will by its very nature influence your conduct and behavior. Your bad habits, you will no longer have the urge to do them. You will think differently, dream differently, act differently and talk differently - if something does not qualify for meditation, it does not qualify for conversation. *THE BATTLE BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS (GOOD AND EVIL)* Heaven is God's throne and the dwelling place for God's angels and the saints. Hell was meant for the devil (satan) and the fallen angels. Those who torture the souls in hell are demons (unclean spirits). Man's spirit is a free moral agent. You can either yield yourself to God or to the devil because God has given us discretion. If one thinks he possesses only his own spirit, he is lying to himself and he is already in the dark. God is light while the devil is darkness. Light (Holy Spirit) and darkness (evil spirit) cannot stay together in a man's body. God is Love (Love is light) and where there is no love is hell, just as where there is no light is darkness. The one you yield yourself to, you will get his reward. The reward of righteousness to man's spirit is life (abundant life) and the reward of sin to man's spirit is death. Sin and satan are one and the same. Whatever sin can cause, satan also can cause. Sin is what gives the devil dominion or power over man's spirit. When God's Word becomes a part of you, sin power over you is broken, you become the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus. Where Jesus is, you are and when He went (to the Father), you went. In the book of John 8:42-47, Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” My prayer is, "May God bless His Word in the midst of your heart." Glory and honour be to God our Father, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and our Helper the Holy Spirit. Watch and pray!... Thank you for your time and may God bless you as you share this message with others.

  • @holy_shiite
    @holy_shiiteАй бұрын

    women

  • @ll1881ll
    @ll1881ll3 ай бұрын

    Video is very good but with the narrator keeps using up talking / high rising terminal. Please stop. Don’t make declarative sentences sound like a question

  • @campfireeverything

    @campfireeverything

    Ай бұрын

    I’m here partly because I like the narration so much. It’s perfect.

  • @plica06

    @plica06

    Ай бұрын

    It annoys me as well. I have heard worse though. I think this lady might be Canadian.

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