Episode
Horizon: Man meets Duck / The Picture Machines
Overview
Gordon Taylor meets with Konrad Lorenz, the inventor of ethology, and interviews him about his work on animal instinct and his theories about human instinct. The world knows all about the uncanny mathematical abilities of the computer. But what happens when these machines learn to draw?
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1966-06-05
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Man meets Duck / The Picture Machines is Episode 12 in 1966 of Horizon. It aired on 1966-06-05. The runtime is 60 min.
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