In 1943, Warren McCulloch (a neurophysiologist and psychiatrist) and Walter Pitts (a young mathematician) published a foundational paper laying out a mathematical idealization of neural networks that became the theoretical foundation for all subsequent neural network research.
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“the next probably big step was 1943 uh chap called Warren McCulla and chap called Walter Pittz. Um Warren McCulla was a was a neurohysiologist and psychiatrist. Walter Pittz was a a young math very young math person. Um they worked together wrote a paper about kind of the logical theory of neural nets.”
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The AI Expert: "Super AI Will Be Unstoppable!" – What’s Coming NEXT | Stephen Wolfram— Sean KimCreated: 8/11/2026, 5:31:42 AM
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