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Quevedo And Cajal: The Story of the True AGI Architects
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ISBN13: 9798198744417
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 490
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 490
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the two true architects of Artificial Intelligence were Spanish, had been born in the same year (1852)... and official history had erased them? In 1912, a Spanish engineer built the first machine in history capable of deciding for itself: El Ajedrecista, by Leonardo Torres Quevedo. In 1894, an Aragonese physician formulated the principle that today allows neural networks to learn: Santiago Ramón y Cajal wrote that every man can, if he set his mind to it, be the sculptor of his own brain. Decades before Turing, Shannon, von Neumann, or Zuse, they had already drawn the complete blueprint of AGI. This book recovers, with rigor and passion, what the Anglo-Saxon world failed to recognize. What you will discover:
Cortical Labs CEO
David's unique background as a scientist and technologist with a Spanish heritage and his appreciation for history weaves a braid from two main threads of the untold and forgotten stories of Cajal and Quevado. This book will finally paint the faces onto the giants whose shoulders stand the most important technological breakthroughs in the 21st century. 12 chapters. almost 500 pages. Exhaustive glossary. More than one hundred references. From the childhood of two boys born in the same year in different corners of Spain, to the Cajal-Quevedo fusion of 1943 that gave rise to the Perceptron. From Simarro's Madrid kitchen-laboratory to today's wetware at Cortical Labs. From the Niagara Whirlpool Aero Car (still in service) to the agents that now navigate your screen. Why read it now. We are living through the greatest technological transformation in human history. Understanding where it comes from tells us where it is going. Recognizing those who opened the path is not nostalgia: it is justice, perspective, and advantage. If you are interested in AI, neuroscience, the history of science, or simply want to understand the world that is coming, this book will change the way you look at it. Join us in reclaiming the first architects of AGI. A century late, but still in time.
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