1948 AD
Wiener publishes Cybernetics
Artificial intelligence · Foundations
Norbert Wiener systematized the study of control and communication in feedback systems. Cybernetics linked machines, organisms and information and provided an intellectual antecedent to AI, although the two traditions are not identical.
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