Probably the most spectacular example was the Connection Machine, developed by Marvin’s student Danny Hillis and his company Thinking Machines (for which Richard Feynman and I were both consultants). It was always in the air that the Connection Machine was built to implement one of Marvin’s theories about the brain, and might be seen one day as like the “transistor of artificial intelligence”. But I, for example, ended up using its massively parallel architecture to implement cellular automaton models of fluids, and not anything AI-ish at all.
