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 goal-oriented behavior (a kind of feedback control).<br>

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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Connectionists <connectionists-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu> on behalf of Stephen José Hanson <jose@rubic.rutgers.edu><br>

<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 17, 2023 6:13 AM<br>

<b>To:</b> Sean Manion <stmanion@gmail.com>; Gary Marcus <gary.marcus@nyu.edu><br>

<b>Cc:</b> connectionists@cs.cmu.edu <connectionists@cs.cmu.edu><br>

<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: Connectionists: Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning</font>

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<p><font size="4"><font face="monospace">Sean,</font></font></p>

<p><font size="4"><font face="monospace">What a wonderfult find!</font></font></p>

<p><font size="4"><font face="monospace">I believe this is most likely a precursor to the Macy meetings 1946-1953, which was run by McCulloch.<br>

It included the wonderful list from Wiener of the areas that "have obtained a degree of intimacy".</font></font></p>

<p><font size="4"><font face="monospace">These meetings became called by the attendees-- CYBERNETICS.. and of course is the precursor to AI and Neural Networks, computational neuroscience etc..</font></font></p>

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<p><font size="4"><font face="monospace">thanks for sharing!</font></font></p>

<p><font size="4"><font face="monospace">Steve<br>

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