Smartness is a forthcoming graphic novel by Tal Halpern in collaboration with Dr. Orit Halpern, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Prof. Matteo Pasquinelli. It tells the story of the early theory of artificial neurons and the eclectic group of dreamers who reenvisioned our brains and rewired our machines to create new forms of intelligence.
Above: American cognitive scientist Jerome Lettvin (coauthor of the seminal AI essay “What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain”, 1959) depicted in the bathtub where he routinely spent hours reading and thinking…