This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the sudden collapse of the market for specialised AI hardware

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the sudden collapse of the market for specialised AI hardware in 1987. This is due to the fact that computers from Apple and IBM became more powerful than Lisp machines and other expert systems. In the 80s,...

Boston Global Forum Statement on AI Pioneers Winning the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry

The Boston Global Forum (BGF) extends its heartfelt congratulations to the pioneers in artificial intelligence who have been awarded the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry in 2024. This monumental achievement underscores the transformative impact of...

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 introduced...

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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Judea Pearl publishes “Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – computer scientist Judea Pearl published Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems in 1988. The book is, according to the publisher, about “the theoretical foundations and computational methods...

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...