Revisiting Cybernetics and Relation to Cybernetical Intelligence

Cybernetics, along with relativity and quantum theory, has been identified as the three major leaps in the development of science in the first half of the 20th century. The research on cybernetics has basic practical significance, and with the development of cybernetics, it is more deeply connected with other fields. They keep crossing each other and play a crucial role in solving problems in other fields. This chapter mainly presents the theoretical content and application of cybernetics. Artificial intelligence (AI) is built on the pillars of a few major branches of science and engineering, namely, systematology, information theory, and cybernetics, which is typically based on control theory that was derived from the studies of Norbert Wiener, the world‐renowned father of cybernetics. Cybernetical intelligence is introduced based on the integration of AI and cybernetics, which can produce applications in predictive control, pattern recognition, and classification, which essentially are based on the same fundamentals.