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This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – IBM “Watson” defeats 2 Jeopardy! champions
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - IBM “Watson” machine defeats 2 human Jeopardy! champions. The machine went on the show on February 16th, 2011 and faced off against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, previous winners of the famous game-show. The show was taped...
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Stanford Heuristic Programming Project introduced expert systems
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - Edward Feigenbaum formally introduces expert systems in 1965. He was a part of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project, which contained other notable AI pioneers. Edward Feigenbaum is an American computer scientist...
This week in the History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Summer Research Project proposal
This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net - the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was proposed. The proposal was submitted on September 2, 1955, but written on August 31, 1955. It was the collaboration of John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky,...
The History of AI: Professor Cheryl Misak spoke about Frank Ramsey
The first event of the AIWS House, the History of AI, is the talk by University Professor of University of Toronto Cheryl Misak. Professor Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of UCLA, Turing Award, Member of the History of AI Board, advised and raised questions to...
Criteria of AI Chronicle at AIWS.net
I. Scope: includes 3 fields Ideas, Theories, Concepts, and Methodologies for AI through applying AI. Inventions and Innovations in AI science and technology. AI applications, iniatives in politics, governments, society, economy, business, industry. Types of contents:...
Cornerstones in History of AI
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 – 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...
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...