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Definition: Mark I Perceptron
The first AI computer. Developed by Frank Rosenblatt in 1958, the computer implemented the Perceptron classification algorithm that distinguished between two objects such as a square and circle. The concept was first tested in an IBM 704, a vacuum-tube computer that was introduced four years earlier.
Mark I Perceptron
Built at the Cornell Aeronautical Lab in Buffalo, New York, it was funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research. This was the first time a machine could make a decision after being fed examples. This image is from the operator's manual.