In 1958 a newspaper reported that a machine would one day walk, talk and be conscious.

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After a US Navy press event about Frank Rosenblatt’s perceptron — a simple early neural network — The New York Times reported the Navy expected it to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence. It could learn to tell simple shapes apart.

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