Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Barak bets big on emergency app Reporty

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak wants to revolutionize emergency services technology with startup Reporty Homeland Security. The Reporty chairman led the Israeli startup’s latest $5.15 million funding round, which was announced Tuesday. “We...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Waseda University builds WABOT-2

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Waseda University built WABOT-2 in 1984. A follow up to the WABOT-1 they built in 1973, this robot was also anthropomorphic, but improvements were made. The WABOT-2 was a follow-up to the WABOT-1 project....

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Waseda University builds WABOT-1

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Waseda University built WABOT-1 in 1973. It was the first full-scale anthropomorphic robot, with a climb-control system, a vision system, and a conversation system. The WABOT-1 was the first of its kind....

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Unimate became 1st first industrial robot for labor

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Unimate, an industrial robot developed in the 50s, becomes the first to work in New Jersey in 1961. Unimate was invented by George Davol, who filed the patent in 1954. Davol met Joseph Engelberger in...

The DELPHI Model is recognized with the History of AI Award 2021

Delphi, a MIT-Janssen’s COVID-19 Forecast Model – MIT researchers and scientists at Janssen Research & Development (Janssen) leveraged real-world data and applied artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to help guide the company’s...

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 – Alan Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” was published

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing was published in the Mind quarterly academic journal in October 1950. It was the first instance that the “Turing test” was introduced to the...

Eva Kaili speaks at the BGF Symposium “The Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital” December 12, 2021

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

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