David Rumelhart
A psychologist who modeled the mind as networks of simple units and co-wrote the 1986 backpropagation paper.
Books
Parallel Distributed Processing1986The two-volume handbook of the 1980s neural network revival, written with James McClelland and the PDP Research Group.
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How AI guesses the next word
How does a program that only guesses the next word write sentences people believe? The story starts with Betty Shannon guessing a sentence one letter at a time, and reaches a lawyer who handed a court six cases that never existed.