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Walter Pitts

How a frog’s eye robbed us of a genius’s AI masterwork

30 May 2018

Walter Pitts would have become one of the most famous names in computer science - if it hadn’t been for the frogs
Scene from Spotlight

AI inspired by the film Spotlight could track down child abusers

30 May 2018

Journalists at the Boston Globe painstakingly sifted patterns in public records to find priests who had sexually abused children. Now an AI might do the same

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