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fic even though no one seems to be in control. There are three laws of artificial intelligence. The first, known as Ashby’s Law, after cybernetician W. Ross Ashby, author of Design for a Brain, states that any effective control system must be as complex as the system it controls. The second law, articulated by
f the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist; and The Global Work of Art. David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science
rence to make a difference. In this way of looking at the world, a control system needed to be as complex as the system it controlled. Cyberneticist W. Ross Ashby proved that this was true in a precise mathematical sense, in what is now called Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety, or sometimes the First Law of Cybe
g metaphors?” 108 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016911 “INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US David Kaiser David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of Physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science
fic even though no one seems to be in control. There are three laws of artificial intelligence. The first, known as Ashby’s Law, after cybernetician W. Ross Ashby, author of Design for a Brain, states that any effective control system must be as complex as the system it controls. The second law, articulated by
f the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist; and The Global Work of Art. David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science
rence to make a difference. In this way of looking at the world, a control system needed to be as complex as the system it controlled. Cyberneticist W. Ross Ashby proved that this was true in a precise mathematical sense, in what is now called Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety, or sometimes the First Law of Cybe
g metaphors?” 108 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016328 “INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US David Kaiser David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of Physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science
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