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		tim333 on March 14, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI Though airplane designers probably looked at bird wings for inspiration. Similar to how Deep Mind are looking at the brain.

jacquesm on March 14, 2016 [–]

Early airplane inventors tried very hard to imitate flapping bird wings for propulsion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter

Some even worked.

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