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SNARC

Last year I learned about the Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator (SNARC). As the first artificial neural network machine ever built, it seemed like a lost artifact in the history...

SkyKnit

Thanks to the work of Janelle Shane and an avid group of knitters, SkyKnit produces new knitting patterns using a neural network trained on over 5000 knitting patterns. It's an...

SHODAN

While I was in the early stages of working on the exhibit design, James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction series had an episode about artificial intelligence called Intelligent Machines. Cameron...

Theseus

In 1951 Claude Shannon made Theseus, a maze-solving mouse that used a bank of relays for its brain. It was a fairly large device with X-Y motors, 90 relays, reed...

HAL 9000

I recently learned about using acrylic to make clean looking builds. So when there was an issue with a HAL replica kit being received in time for the exhibit, it...

History of AI Exhibit

If you are in Atlanta, stop by the Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech to check out the exhibit. M-F 11am to 6pm April 4th to April 24th,...