Tuvalu – the first digital nation

Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country and microstate in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. Its islands are situated about midway between Hawaii and Australia. Tuvalu, a South Pacific nation...

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 introduces expert systems in 1965. He was a part of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project, which hosted other notable AI pioneers as well. Edward Feigenbaum is an American computer...

Indian author Amitav Ghosh shares how ChatGPT from OpenAI attempts to write a story in his literary style in this festive season

OpenAI of Elon Musk launched ChatGPT on November 30, 2022. It made a significant progress in automatic writing and smart searching. Writer Amitav Ghosh wrote on his Twitter: “A priceless exchange on ChatGPT, from OpenAI. I’m soon going to be out...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy founded the MIT AI Lab

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the MIT AI Lab was founded by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky in 1959. This marked the beginning of coordinated AI research at MIT. The lab focused on researching and developing AI. The Lab went through...

Artificial Intelligence and the Sustainable Development Goals

As the world prepares to observe Human Rights Day on December 10, we look at a paper prepared earlier this year by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the role artificial intelligence can play in their furtherance —...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – DARPA ends the Strategic Computing Initiative in 1993

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Strategic Computing Initiative was ended by DARPA in 1993. DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research and development agency founded by the US Department of Defense...

Remarks by Cameron Kerry, former US Acting Secretary of Commerce, at the BGF 10th Anniversary Conference

Let speak about the broader contact of these multilateral gatherings and efforts like the Boston Global Forum and the Forum for Cooperation on AI that I co-lead at the Brookings Institution. We are in a changing world. The international order that emerged...

Manifesto “AIWS Actions to create an Age of Global Enlightenment”

Harvard University, Loeb House, November 22, 2022 I. Fundamentals and Accompanying the United Nations: Creating an Age of Global Enlightenment is based on the AIWS model whose core and pillars were introduced in the book “Remaking the World – Toward...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the Logic Theorist was developed by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Herbert Simon and Allen Newell developed Logic Theorist in December 1955. Logic Theorist is a computer program that is considered to be the first AI program. The program was designed to perform automated...