Planes Don't Flap Their Wings: Does AI Work Like A Brain? - Liwaiwai

In 1739, Parisians flocked to see an exhibition of automata by the French inventor Jacques de Vaucanson performing feats assumed impossible by machines. In addition to human-like flute and drum players, the collection contained a golden duck, standing on a pedestal, quacking and defecating. It was, in fact, a digesting duck. When offered pellets by the exhibitor, it would pick them out of his hand and consume them with a gulp. Vaucanson died in 1782 with his reputation as a trailblazer in artificial digestion intact.