W. Ross Ashby on AI
2 quotes from W. Ross Ashby on the wall, 1952, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Chapman & Hall (Wiley reprint 1954).
A machine's behaviour may be made as adaptive as we please
W. Ross Ashby, a British psychiatrist and cybernetician at Barnwood House, Gloucester, and builder of the Homeostat, opened his 1952 book Design for a Brain with this aim.
A machine assembled at random to be wholly chaotic
W. Ross Ashby, British cybernetician and psychiatrist, wrote this in the summary and preface of Design for a Brain (1952), on his finding that adaptive systems must be assembled largely at random.