An early attempt to create machines that can adapt to changing sitiations by predicting non-random sequennces, D.W. Hagelbarger built his SEER, the SEequence Extrapoloation Robot. Claude E. Shannon seemed to discussed the matter intensively and made a similar machine, based on Hagelbargers copy, smaller and adopting quicker.

- D.W. Hagelbarger: “SEER, A SEquence Extrapolating Robot”. IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers, March 1956, pp. 1-7

- Claude E. Shannon: “A Mind-Reading (?) Machine”. Bell Laboratories Memorandum, March 18, 1953. Reprinted in “Collected Papers” by S. Wyner, pp.688-690. Searchable Copy