This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the creation and expansion of ARPANET

This week in the History of AI at AIWS.net – the creation and expansion of ARPANET. ARPANET stands for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, and was a project that was funded by ARPA and the DoD. While urban myths claim that ARPANET was...

OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art

On March 14, 2023, OpenAI released a powerful new image- and text-understanding AI model, GPT-4, that the company calls “the latest milestone in its effort in scaling up deep learning.” GPT-4 is available to OpenAI’s paying users via ChatGPT Plus (with...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference was hosted on July 1, 2020

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference was hosted on July 1st, 2020. The subheading of this event was “Protecting and Strengthening Democracy in the Aftermath of COVID-19.” This...

We are building next-gen AI to become a global powerhouse: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

As the world goes gaga over AI chatbots, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar has a clear vision: To make India a global powerhouse of AI which does not just stop on integrating foreign chatbots but building next-generation...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid organized the Online Roundtable “A New Social Contract in the Age of AI”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid organized the Online Roundtable “A New Social Contract in the Age of AI” on May 12, 2020. The Roundtable was organized by the WLA-CdM in conjunction with...

DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality

International Women’s Day 2023 will be observed on March 8; the theme this year is “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality” This 8 March, the United Nations are calling on governments, activists and the private sector alike to power...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Arthur Samuel popularizes the term “machine learning”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Arthur Samuel popularized 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....

AIWS, the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” inspire content of the book “AI in the Age of Global Enlightenment”

The book “AI in the Age of Global Enlightenment” was officially launched and on sale on Feb. 25, 2023 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with attendance of Vietnamese leaders, distinguished innovators and several hundred of business leaders.   Michelle...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – MIT receives a $2.2 million grant in 1963 from DARPA

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – MIT receives a $2.2 million grant in June 1963 from DARPA, which was used to fund project MAC. This project included the AI Group of Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy. DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research...