The machine must not only evaluate, not only to solve complex mathematical problems that require a lot of arithmetic operations to produce, but also "reflect", which takes quite some time. In some problems it encountered a tremendous number of options from which to choose the best. Electronic machine must go through all these possibilities, evaluate them, and then focus on any one.
Where are the limits, which can reach a cybernetic machine? Will they be able to learn, play, like a car or even better, whether they are capable of creative activity, to make the questions and criticism, have emotions? These and a hundred other matters brought with cybernetics. At some scientists have already responded and said yes, others still remain open. Mechanical Swiss watchmaker Pierre people-Jacques Droz and his son, Henry summoned a general surprise. On a lot of them spoke and wrote.
To look at them, crowds came to Shaw de Fonds, the Swiss countryside on the border with France, where they lived and worked in a draw. Almost all the inhabitants of this village were engaged in the production hours. Some did watch springs, and other manufactured dials, and others - gears, screws, and cylinders. Work was divided up to the fact that there were experts on the body, polishing wheels, screws, drawer numbers enameler, goldsmith. The whole village is a manufactory that produces per year a few thousand different hours.
Ticking pendulum, the slow rotation of the gears, running seconds hands - all these brilliant little world of the exact mechanisms that fits in the palm or in a small box on the wall in his youth fascinated by Pierre Droz, and he, in spite of the successful completion of a religious school, without hesitation, took up sentry a craft.