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The First Alliance of Students from Top Universities Worldwide as a Movement for AI for Good and Humanity: The “Enlightenment in Action Alliance” (EAA) The Enlightenment in Action Alliance (EAA) represents the first global alliance of students...

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...

AIWS Government 24/7 and Boston Areti AI (BAI): Envisioning how AI might best Transform Governance

Michael Dukakis, Elisabeth Moreno, Yasuhide Nakayama With advisory guidance by Alex Pentland, Tuan Anh Nguyen Boston, December 12, 2024  Abstract The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents unprecedented opportunities to transform...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – BGF Unveils Historic Boston Areti AI (BAI) Concepts at Ceremony Honoring President Macron

On November 25, 2024, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) hosted a landmark event at the prestigious Loeb House at Harvard University: Ceremony Honoring French President Emmanuel Macron with the 2024 World Leader for Peace and Security Award and the “AIWS-New...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – BGF Unveils Historic Government 24/7 Concepts at Ceremony Honoring President Macron

On November 25, 2024, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) hosted a landmark event at the prestigious Loeb House at Harvard University: Ceremony Honoring French President Emmanuel Macron with the 2024 World Leader for Peace and Security Award and the “AIWS-New...

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...

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”....

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geofrrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the Turing Award in 2018

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geofrrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the Turing Award in 2018 for breakthroughs that made deep neural networks critical in computing. The Turing Award is one of the most...

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...