iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · Jun 20 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.
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"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...
it's not real
@timkellogg.me is it true
What do I read to understand this perspective better?
@timkellogg.me has also pointed out the Cybernetics connection and has built a system around it
Hilarious that SWEs spent literal decades figuring out "observability" and now are discovering control.
Good analogy
The "loop" everyone's excited about (perceive state, compare to goal, act, observe, repeat) has been the fundamental architecture for goal-directed systems since 1948. We keep rediscovering cybernetics. And it's very much connected to precursor-AI. x.com/omarsar0/st...