The Economic Times

74 years before ChatGPT was released, a former child prodigy was talking about AI usage by humans. His 5 big predictions might already be true

A child prodigy who became one of the pioneers of cybernetics was thinking about intelligent machines decades before artificial intelligence became part of everyday life. Norbert Wieners work explored how machines could use information, feedback and past behaviour, while also warning about the impact of automation and growing human dependence on technology. His ideas, written more than 70 years before ChatGPT, now seem surprisingly relevant to the AI debate.