ChatGPT is made of people!
Published: August 31, 2026
Duration: 27:33
Soylent Green and the enclosure of collective intelligence.
It Was Never Artificial
In the summer of 1956, a group of men in surprisingly sharp casual wear sat around at Dartmouth College to invent a science.
The science already existed and was called “cybernetics”, since another group of academics called it that at the 1949 Macy conference, after the term invented by Norbert Wiener.
“…one of the reasons for inventing the new term was to escape association with ‘cybernetics.’ I wished to avoid having either to accept Norbert Wiener as a guru or having to argue with...