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The LLM as variety transducer: Ashby's intelligence-amplifier architecture and Beer's viable system model as a diagnostic and predictive framework

Richard Sean O'Rourke
Journal: Kybernetes
Kybernetes 1–13.
https://doi.org/10.1108/K-03-2026-0482
Published: 21 July 2026
...Richard Sean O'Rourke Purpose This article argues that W. Ross Ashby's formal intelligence-amplifier architecture (1956) and Stafford Beer's viable system model (Beer, 1984) together constitute a more precise and more diagnostically powerful account of large language model (LLM) systems than...
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