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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 – the sudden collapse of the market for specialised AI hardware
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the sudden collapse of the market for specialised AI hardware in 1987. This is due to the fact that computers from Apple and IBM became more powerful than Lisp machines and other expert systems. In the 80s, specialised AI...
The first conference of the Social Contract for the AI Age
The Social Contract for the AI Age was officially launched and discussed at World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Policy Lab “Transatlantic Approaches: A New Social Contract in the Age of AI” during September 16-18, 2020, with the attendance of presidents, prime...
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...
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....