This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Roger Schank warned of a second AI winter in 1984

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky and Roger Schank warned of a second AI winter at a meeting of the American Assocation of Artificial Intelligence in 1984. Their prediction would come true 3 years later. Marvin Minksy was...

The United Nations 2045 Roundtable: A Distinguished City to Honor the United Nations’ First Century

                                                       The United Nations 2045 Roundtable                              A Distinguished City to Honor the United Nations’ First Century                ...

United Nations 2045 Roundtable: A Distinguished City to Honor the United Nations’ First Century

Lecture of Professor Judea Pearl “What is Causal Inference”

Radical Empiricism and Machine Learning Research

Judea Pearl – University of California, Los Angeles Computer Science Department Abstract I contrast the “data fitting” vs. “data interpreting” approaches to data-science along three dimensions: Expediency, Transparency and Explainability.“Data...

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

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – in 1963 Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published Computers and Thought, a book composed of articles on Artificial Intelligence, the first of its kind. Feigenbaum and Feldman edited and wrote some...

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

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Arthur Samuel popularises the term “machine learning” in 1959

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....

Mentors of AIWS.net State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama and Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija contribute important ideas for AI International Accord

State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama: spoke on national security threats that coincide with technology and that there is a need for AI ethics, policies, which the Japanese government has taken into account in their national strategy. He emphasized the importance...