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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Arthur Samuel popularises the term “machine learning”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Arthur Samuel popularises the term “machine learning” in 1959 in his article “Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers”. Arthur L. Samuel was an American computer scientist. He was a pioneer in the field...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the end of the first AI Winter
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the end of the first AI Winter in 1980. This was due to the adoption of “expert systems” into corporations in the 90s and Japan’s Fifth Generation Computer project. Expert systems are computer systems that can emulate man’s...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, and Ronald Williams published “Learning representations by back-propagating errors”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, and Ronald Williams published “Learning representations by back-propagating errors” in October 1986. In this paper, they describe “a new learning procedure, back-propagation, for networks...
The Social Contract for the AI Age at the Riga Conference 2019
Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, was a speaker at the Riga Conference 2019 at the Plenary Session “Political Power in the Digital Age”. Mr. Tuan introduced the AIWS Social Contract 2020. This was after the AIWS Conference at Harvard University Faculty...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing 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...
Cornerstones in History of AI
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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 – DARPA ends the Strategic Computing Initiative in 1993
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the Strategic Computing Initiative was ended by DARPA in 1993. DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research and development agency founded by the US Department of Defense in 1958 as the ARPA....