"Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics originated in the 1940s, providing one possible historical starting point for modern AI-related research."
The MIT Press's 2019 reissue documents the original 1948 publication of Wiener's influential book on communication, control, feedback, and information in machines and organisms. Its history establishes cybernetics as an intellectual predecessor to the formally named AI research field and supports the manuscript's alternative starting points for AI's development.
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