In 1943, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts published a paper presenting the first mathematical model of an artificial neuron (a logic gate with a threshold activation time). They demonstrated to the world that biological processes occurring in the human brain could be directly replicated using electrical networks and symbolic logic.
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