[cactusfrog]

My process control theory textbook has a chapter on neural networks and a lot of the language in control theory has an AI like tinge to it. I think this AI language is native to control theory so it might not be as overblown as it first sounds.

[amelius]

Huh, control theorists always try to rigorously prove the stability and performance of their algorithms. AI seems to be the opposite of that: just let the black box solve it and don't worry about any problems, we'll just add more training data if they happen!

[FirmwareBurner]

Yes! Let's spend 100x the resources on AI to do what a PID controller or Kalman filter can do.

[fourthark]

A thermostat is a cybernetic device.

[Hackbraten]

So we need both AI and Kubernetes.

[dr_dshiv]

And Cornelis Drebbel invented the first thermostat and the first chemical air conditioning system in the early 1600s. Cybernetic alchemist.

[bee_rider]

I firmly believe control theory folks didn’t invent LLMs only because the idea of doing a big fit on everything sounds too much like a joke they were telling each other.

[jameshart]

If you type ‘fuzzy logic’ in to google the autocomplete suggested search is ‘fuzzy logic rice cooker’. Control theory has been stealing ML terminology for a long time.

[ethbr1]

:D Rice cooker marketing is weirdly synchronized on that.

Speaking of, what does it actually mean? That the cooker isn’t using a timer?

Do most of them run off weight + time + heat response logic?

[Onavo]

I mean yes, that's what reinforcement learning is.

[raxxorraxor]

I always thought my software PID controller with 512kb main memory is quite smart. Pure AI in my opinion.