Ambassador Mbugua Martin Kimani tweets about ChatGPT

Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mbugua Martin Kimani tweets about ChatGPT: #ChatGPT by @OpenAI is the most exciting technological development! I just used it to combine 5 briefs into a good first draft. Then I...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman publish “Computers and Thought”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published Computers and Thought, a book composed of articles on artificial intelligence, in 1963. Perhaps the first anthology on the topic, Feigenbaum and Feldman...

UN Academic Impact member helping to fight the COVID-19 Pandemic with Artificial Intelligence

A new partnership has resulted in the development of ground-breaking COVID antibody tests combining innovative artificial intelligence (AI) and epitope display technologies. A collaborative team of scientists, clinicians, and AI experts, has worked tirelessly...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – in 1970 Marvin Minsky was quoted in Life magazine, “In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” Marvin Minsky was interviewed by Life magazine...

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 —...