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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published an expanded edition of Perceptrons
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published an expanded edition of Perceptrons in 1988. The original book was published in 1969. The original book explored the concept of the “perceptron”, but also highlighted its...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Alvey Programme was launched by the British government
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the Alvey Programme was launched by the British government in 1983. It is a project developed in response to Japan’s own Fifth Generation Computer project. There was no specific focus or directive, but rather the program...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Learning Multiple Layers of Representation” by Geoffrey Hinton was published
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - “Learning Multiple Layers of Representation” by Geoffrey Hinton was published in October 2008. The paper proposed new approaches to deep learning. In place of backpropagation, another concept Hinton introduced prior, Hinton...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Alan Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” was published
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing was published in the Mind quarterly academic journal in October 1950. It was the first instance that the “Turing test” was introduced to the public. The paper takes the...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Judea Pearl publishes “Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - computer scientist Judea Pearl published Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems in 1988. The book is, according to the publisher, about “the theoretical foundations and computational methods that underlie plausible...
Cornerstones in History of AI
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published Perceptrons
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published Perceptrons in 1969. The book explored the concept of the “perceptron”, but also highlighted its limitations. It was also pessimistic in its predictions for AI, and was thought to...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Unimate became 1st first labor industrial robot
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Unimate, an industrial robot developed in the 50s, becomes the first to work in New Jersey in 1961. Unimate was invented by George Davol, who filed the patent in 1954. Davol met Joseph Engelberger in 1956, and the two...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Learning Multiple Layers of Representation” by Geoffrey Hinton was published
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - “Learning Multiple Layers of Representation” by Geoffrey Hinton was published in October 2008. The paper proposed new approaches to deep learning. In place of backpropagation, another concept Hinton introduced prior, Hinton...