This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – IBM “Watson” machine defeats 2 human Jeopardy! champions

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – IBM “Watson” machine defeats 2 human Jeopardy! champions. The machine went on the show on February 16th, 2011 and faced off against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, previous winners of the famous game-show.  The...

The History of AI House at NovaWorld Phan Thiet

On January 31, 2021, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Director of Michael Dukakis Institute visited NovaWorld Phan Thiet and discussed with NovaWorld Phan Thiet leaders about building a branch of Michael Dukakis Institute and the History of AI House at NovaWorld...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – H. A. Simon wrote,  “machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – H. A. Simon was quoted with a prediction,  “machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do” in the 1960s. He wrote this in his “The New Science of Management Decision” Herbert...

Building and developing Smart City attaches the comprehension of Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS) under the impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4.0)

BUILDING AND DEVELOPING SMART CITY ATTACHES THE COMPREHENSION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORLD SOCIETY (AIWS) UNDER THE IMPACTS OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (4.0) Lt. Gen., Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Thanh, member of Party Central Committee,...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Unimate was the first industrial robot to work

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...

Judea Pearl and UCLA join Toyota Research Institute’s AI program

UCLA Newsroom | January 26, 2021 Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been selected to join the Toyota Research Institute’s program on artificial intelligence. With more than $750,000...

Joy Buolamwini is a Person of the History of AI 2020

Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is a Ghanaian-American computer scientist and digital activist based at the MIT Media Lab. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League, an organisation that looks to challenge bias in decision making software. In 2020, Buolamwini...

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

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....

A.I. needs to get real—and other takeaways from this year’s NeurIPS

Hello and welcome to the last “Eye on A.I.” of 2020! I spent last week immersed in the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference, the annual gathering of top academic A.I. researchers. It’s always a good spot for taking...