House of Lords could be replaced by bots with ‘higher productivity’, says peer

Lord Londesborough asked if the prospect of being replaced is ‘exciting’ or ‘alarming’. The House of Lords could be replaced by bots with “deeper knowledge, higher productivity and lower running costs”, a peer has said during a debate on...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – John McCarthy proposed the ‘advice taker’ in 1959

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – John McCarthy proposed the “advice taker” in his paper “Programs with Common Sense.” This hypothetical program was the first to use logic to represent information. The paper was published in 1959. John...

Seven AI companies agree to safeguards after pressure from the White House

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other tech firms agree to AI safeguards set by the White House. President Joe Biden said Friday that new commitments by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other companies that are leading the development of artificial...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Frank Rosenblatt developed the Perceptron

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Frank Rosenblatt developed the Perceptron in 1957. It is a form of neural network that allowed pattern-recognition. Frank Rosenblatt was an American psychologist. Born in 1928, Rosenblatt would go on...

FTC investigating ChatGPT creator OpenAI over consumer protection issues

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into ChatGPT creator OpenAI and whether the artificial intelligence company violated consumer protection laws by scraping public data and publishing false information through its chatbot. The...

AI tests into top 1% for original creative thinking

New research from the University of Montana and its partners suggests artificial intelligence can match the top 1% of human thinkers on a standard test for creativity. The study was directed by Dr. Erik Guzik, an assistant clinical professor in UM’s...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Bletchley Park cryptologists broke the German Enigma code

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Bletchley Park cryptologists broke the German Enigma code on 9th July, 1941. Alan Turing, considered the founder of computer science and AI, played a vital role in this process in developing the Bombe. Alan...

Global Enlightenment Mountain’s Thomas Kehler: Bayesian Networks empower a new generation of AI

Thomas Kehler, a member of Global Enlightenment Mountain, Chief Scientist of CrowdSmart comments on the article “Bayesian Networks: The Key to Unlocking AI’s True Potential” https://dtgreviews.com/uncategorised/bayesian-networks-the-key-to-unlocking-ais-true-potential/51812/ “The...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The UN Charter Day Roundtable: A Social Contract in the Age of AI and Intellectual Society was hosted in 2020

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The UN Charter Day Roundtable: A Social Contract in the Age of AI and Intellectual Society was hosted on June 26, 2020. The roundtable was an event of the UN to discuss the Social Contract 2020 (A New...