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Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics, may deserve a place in the pantheon of the founding fathers of modern AI, alongside Alan Turing and John von Neumann. FRANCE 24 takes a look at this overlooked mathematician who was one of the first to...

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AI before AI: The legacy of Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics (3/3)

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