Read moreThe Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2)But for Triclot, cybernetics’ “indirect influence” on AI is considerable. A series of ten meetings known as the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics brought together scientists interested in Wiener’s ideas between 1946 and 1953. At MIT, Wiener also supervised the work of Walter Pitts, a researcher and logician who was pivotal to the development of modern AI. Against the Manhattan ProjectThis work, which is rooted in cybernetics, is essential to understanding today’s large language models. Known for his strong-willed character and notorious outbursts of anger, Wiener understood why certain areas of scientific research were dangerous.