Connectionists: Cybernetics

[Rothganger, Fredrick]

Despite its long history, cybernetics remains the single best framework for our field. It is broad enough to encompass biology, neuroscience, artificial/natural intelligence (possibly including all mental phenomena), computer science, politics and economics. Yet it is specific enough to implement things that actually work.

I believe that if we ever achieve anything resembling AGI, it's generality will come from goal-oriented behavior (a kind of feedback control).

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Connectionists: Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning


Sean,

What a wonderfult find!

I believe this is most likely a precursor to the Macy meetings 1946-1953, which was run by McCulloch.
It included the wonderful list from Wiener of the areas that "have obtained a degree of intimacy".

These meetings became called by the attendees-- CYBERNETICS.. and of course is the precursor to AI and Neural Networks, computational neuroscience etc..

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo23348570.html<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpress.uchicago.edu%2Fucp%2Fbooks%2Fbook%2Fdistributed%2FC%2Fbo23348570.html&data=05%7C01%7Cfrothga%40sandia.gov%7C2c74f9fb881e47a68a7608daf8914116%7C7ccb5a20a303498cb0c129007381b574%7C1%7C0%7C638095600023360619%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2MfPyPRmBGohlhwt1q7CnNIrot3yaqbMoMiLJhtwpHw%3D&reserved=0>

thanks for sharing!

Steve

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