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Lots of ink spilled on "Loop engineering", but no one seems to connect it to its much older name: Cybernetics. Maybe by the year's end, we'll recognize that it was all Control Theory engineering all along.

ntm

@ntm.bsky.social

20 June

"One reason for inventing the term [AI] was to escape association with cybernetics," as McCarthy once bluntly explained. "I wished to avoid having either to accept Norbert Wiener as a guru or having to argue with him." medium.com/block-scienc...

medium.comInside the Very Human Origin of the Term “Artificial Intelligence” — And Its Seven Decade…With so much growing interest and fear around AI, it may be helpful to know some history around the term, how it came to be — and why it…

iamwil

@interjectedfuture.com

Oh yeah. I remember reading that Weiner was hard to get along with in academic circles of that era. Brilliant, but really insecure.

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