The wiener.

Norbert Wiener is often looked upon as the father of cybernetics. He graduated with a PhD from Harvard at age 18, and pursued his love for computers in the years after. Cybernetics can be understood as the science of control and communication in mechanical and biological systems. Wiener also launched theories on animals as machines subject to feedback, meaning that life-like self control was a ‘simple engineering job’. To my understanding, Wiener is saying that computers are intelligent if they can learn from their own mistakes. I am quite a sceptic when regarding Wiener’s thesis in the 21st century however. Machines are meant to be a tool for humans, but in my opinion they are taking over way more than necessary.

Depending on machines that can easily be tricked by viruses is a scary thought. Wiener meant that people depended too much on machines during the industrial revolution, and I think we are back to that now. I think we can all agree that capitalism and the technological race is the reason for this. Furthermore, I feel that the ones in lead of this race needs to ask themselves whether or not they want to create artificial intelligence and by that risk getting us all slaves for robots. I know I’m scared.