Dino Buzzati Interpreter of Silvio Ceccato: Il grande ritratto and Its Debt to Cybernetics

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Eleonora Lima
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This essay examines the impact of the studies conducted by cybernetician Silvio Ceccato on Buzzati’s novella Il grande ritratto (1959). While the link connecting Buzzati’s fictional rendition of an artificial intelligence (AI) in the novella and Ceccato’s theories have previously been established by the critics, this study explores in-depth and for the first time how truly knowledgeable and receptive the author was to the then new field of cybernetics. By cross-referencing Il grande ritratto against Ceccato’s work, and Buzzati’s own newspaper articles dedicated to it, this study demonstrates how the novella’s techno-scientific substratum is fundamental to understand why Buzzati chose to write the character of Numero Uno, the AI, the way he did. Indeed, the story departs from the traditional depiction of humanoid robots and anticipates some of the contemporary issues concerning AI, from the “black box problem” and autonomy in neural networks, to biases in data. The purpose of this essay is to situate Il grande ritratto within Buzzati’s well-informed curiosity for Ceccato’s theories, while also showing how the author’s engagement with cybernetics was not at all atypical, but rather in line with the enthusiastic interest for the field animating many Italian artists between the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Silvio Ceccato的Dino Buzzati解读者:Il grande ritratto及其对控制论的亏欠
本文考察了控制论者Silvio Ceccato对Buzzati中篇小说《Il grande ritratto》(1959)的研究所产生的影响。虽然评论家们之前已经建立了Buzzati在中篇小说中虚构的人工智能与Ceccato理论之间的联系,但这项研究首次深入探讨了作者对当时新的控制论领域的真正了解和接受程度。通过将Il grande ritratto与Ceccato的作品以及Buzzati自己在报纸上发表的专门文章进行交叉引用,这项研究表明,这部中篇小说的技术科学基础对于理解Buzati为什么选择像他那样写人工智能Numero Uno这个角色至关重要。事实上,这个故事偏离了对人形机器人的传统描述,并预见到了人工智能的一些当代问题,从“黑匣子问题”和神经网络的自主性,到数据中的偏见。这篇文章的目的是将Il grande ritratto置于Buzzati对Ceccato理论的充分好奇心中,同时也表明作者对控制论的参与并非非典型,而是符合20世纪50年代末至60年代初许多意大利艺术家对该领域的热情。
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