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Shannon's Mind Reading Machine

In an early attempt to predict human behaviour by a machine, D.W. Hagelbarger created such a machine for the penny guessing game

References

- 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