This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Historical Conference of BGF and Club de Madrid

September 16, 2024 Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Final Report Virtual Policy Lab, 16-18 September, 2020 The World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) in partnership...

TIME Magazine Recognizes Amandeep Gill, 2022 World Leader in AIWS Award Recipient, as TIME100 AI 2024

Boston Global Forum (BGF) is proud to share that Amandeep Gill, honored with the 2022 World Leader in AI World Society (AIWS) Award at Harvard University’s Loeb House on November 22, 2022, has now been recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the TIME100...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Joseph Weizenbaum was born on January 8th, 1923

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Joseph Weizenbaum was born on January 8th, 1923. Weizenbaum published the program ELIZA in 1966 which could mimic conversation with humans. Although Weizenbaum was considered a father of Artificial Intelligence,...

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...

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...

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...

Where AI will play an important role in governance, risk & compliance programs

Artificial intelligence has an important role to play in corporations’ governance, risk management, and compliance efforts, especially around areas of fraud detection and protection Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a new fascination and...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was proposed

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,...

Microsoft unveils five-point blueprint for responsible AI governance in India

Microsoft’s Brad Smith authored a report titled “Governing AI: A Blueprint for India” that outlines a roadmap for the ethical development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in India. The report reflects Microsoft’s commitment to responsible...