Artificial Intelligence in the Life's Work of Stanisław Lem

Since 1956, countless devices and their programs have been declared artificial intelligence. The word “robot” has changed meaning similarly since 1922. Lem devoted muchof his entire life's work to publishing his ideas on robotization, cybernetics, and self-aware machine intelligence, which he described as homeostatic systems. The technological development of the 21st century is following precisely the same course, making the same mistakes that Lem, with his characteristic sarcasm, has illustrated in the stories of Trurl and Klapaucius. This paper presents the author's key findings for AI developers.