Ashby, R. (1960). Design of a Brain. Butler and Tanner LTD Ross Ashby, a psychiatrist by background, published his book “Introduction to cybernetics” in 1956 and his next book “Design of a Brain” in 1960. Ashby argued that our brain functions much like a machine: “The nervous system behaves adaptively” and “it is essentially mechanistic.”…
Biological Humans v Synthetic Machines
Cyberspace, cybersecurity, cyberinfrastructure and cyborg are some of the most popular words in modern vocabulary. If we look up the etymology of the prefix cyber, it is an abbreviation of cybernetics, which in turn traces its roots back to a Greek word “kybernētēs” that means steersman, governor or pilot. In the mid 20th century cybernetics…
Avatar: The Creation of Cyborg
This avatar is an imitation of Michelangelo’s famous The Creation of Adam fresco painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican. Today, there are very smart people, who make strong arguments that in the coming decades we will lose the boundaries between biological human and synthetic machines. They believe that soon machines will…
On Artificial Creativity
“Creative souls and glory seem, Submissive and subtle and soft and serene.” These two lines were produced by AI poem generator, when I put in my keyword creative. In 2019, Google collaborated with artists to create a platform, which generates a unique short poem within seconds, when you enter a word in English. The algorithm…
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Avatar: Transformer
In computer science, there is a concept of attention models, which are “input processing techniques for neural networks that allow the network to focus on specific aspects of a complex input”[1] and a concept of “transformer”, which is a machine learning “model that uses attention to boost the speed”[2] and efficiency. According to one research,…
