EVENTS
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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 – Marvin Minsky publishes “The Society of Mind”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Marvin Minsky publishes The Society of Mind in 1987. This book is a theoretical description of the mind as a collection of cooperating agents. Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist. He penned the...
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...
President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Vint Cerf, Nazli Choucri, and Tuan Nguyen discuss the Social Contract for the AI Age at the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Policy Lab
On September 17 at Session I: The AIWS Social Contract 2020 and AIWS Innovation Network: A Platform for Transatlantic Cooperation, the Lead Speaker and Facilitator was Nazli Choucri, Boston Global Forum Board Member and Professor of Political Science at the...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Judea Pearl published “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 – Herbert Simon and Allen Newell develop Logic Theorist
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Herbert Simon and Allen Newell developed Logic Theorist in December 1955. Logic Theorist is a computer program that is considered to be the first AI program. The program was designed to perform automated reasoning, the...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and others published papers on neural networks and handwriting recognition
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and others in November 1998 published a series of papers. They discussed neural networks and handwriting recognition, as well as backpropagation. One of them can be read here. Yoshua Bengio is a...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Rodney Brooks published “Elephants Don’t Play Chess”
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Rodney Brooks published “Elephants Don’t Play Chess” in 1990. The paper proposed a “group-up approach” to developing AI, in contrast with Classical AI. Brooks dubbed this approach “Nouvell AI”. The paper can be read and...