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Narrated story: Frank Rosenblatt pioneered artificial intelligence in 1958
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Episode 5
Frank Rosenblatt '50, associate professor of neurobiology and behavior in Cornell’s Division of Biological Sciences, created a machine capable of learning and understanding its surroundings without human control in 1958, but he was 60 years ahead of his time. The field of artificial intelligence languished, and he died at the age of 43, decades before new AI pioneers finally built on his groundbreaking work.