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John Pierce
A Bell Labs electrical engineer in the 1950s who argued that randomness was essential for creative computing.
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- Why early AI was designed to be random — and why we stopped liking it“Some, like John Pierce, an electrical engineer at Bell Labs, believed the answer was yes — but only if you let machines make mistakes.”