@v.unsealed: Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, 1943: the first artificial neuron, the switch every neural network still grows from. In 1962 McCulloch told a film crew machines might survive us. Bonus fact: the logician Bertrand Russell was so impressed by 12-year-old Pitts' letter that he invited him to study at Cambridge. #artificialintelligence #neuralnetworks #warrenmcculloch #walterpitts #historyofai