[I believe I haven’t shared this tweet before regarding John McCarthy talking about coining the phase ‘artificial intelligence’ in distinction to ‘cybernetics’ for funding and out of dislike of Wiener? (In my mind, Evgeny Morozov was not the first to share this, but I can’t find an earlier tweet… oh, ok, there’s a lot more on twitter – see search below – including claim this was a self-deprecating claim (and other evidence of Wiener not being easy to get along with!)
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Jan 21, 2024
Plan, Quantify, Steer
Artificial Intelligence and its impact on the future has been making all the headlines in recent years, and rightly so, but few people realize that AI is built on a Cybernetic platform. AI is a “derivative” of Cybernetics. The latter is not only a computer science, it is a way of looking at the world.
Cybernetics vs Artificial IntelligenceJan Krikke·Following3 min read·Jan 21, 2024281Plan, Quantify, SteerArtificial Intelligence and its impact on the future has been making all the headlines in recent years, and rightly so, but few people realize that AI is built on a Cybernetic platform. AI is a “derivative” of Cybernetics. The latter is not only a computer science, it is a way of looking at the world.
Cybernetics vs Artificial Intelligence | by Jan Krikke | Medium
https://jankrikke2020.medium.com/cybernetics-vs-artificial-intelligence-39689186e346
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