The Neuro Experience
The True Origin of AI: A 45 Year Old Scientist Took In a Homeless Teen, Then they Changed the World
June 16, 202639 min
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Every AI breakthrough you've heard of, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, traces back to a single 1943 paper, and its co-author was a homeless teenage runaway who never finished high school. Walter Pitts taught himself Greek, Latin, and the foundations of modern logic in a Detroit public library, corrected Bertrand Russell's math by letter at age 12, and was taken in by a 45 year old scientist who treated him like a son.
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