HUMAN IN THE LOOP: NORBERT WIENER AND THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE HORIZON

Abstract

In the early 1960s, Norbert Wiener put forward a thesis on the need to develop learning methods in machines, which this paper juxtaposes with the contemporary debate on the development of artificial intelligence and the concept of "human in the loop". This concept refers to the contemporary phenomena of microtasking and clickworking where the “human in the loop” concept survives as an indefinite phase of development that has no end in sight, despite the views and theses of contemporary authors on crossing the threshold after which there will be unsupervised learning by artificial intelligence. These stanpoints are compared in the paper with indications of real developments in this field, obtained from media insights into the issue.