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Shannon's Mind Reading Machine
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.
References
- D.W. Hagelbarger: “SEER, A SEquence Extrapolating Robot”. IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers, March 1956, pp. 1-7 hagelbarger1959_seer.pdf
- 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
