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...

Senior CSAIL Professor joins the History of AI Board

Professor Randall Davis has served as Associate Director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (1993-1998), as a Research Director of CSAIL from 2003-2007, and as Associate Director of CSAIL from 2012-2014. Dr. Davis has been a seminal contributor...

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

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 – 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,...

The Quad Roundtable at the Riga Conference 2020 The Quad Group, AIWS Social Contract, and World Peace and Security

The Quad Report The Quad Roundtable at the Riga Conference 2020 The Quad Group, AIWS Social Contract, and World Peace and Security can be read in full and downloaded here.

Major Countries Propose Priorities for Biden Administration, World Leaders: Leaders of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States Shape a New Era of Cooperation

A PDF of the Report can be found here. BOSTON, January 7, 2021: Leaders from Australia, India, Japan, and the United States have proposed a blueprint for tackling the major challenges confronting the incoming Biden administration and other world leaders...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the end of the first AI Winter

Yesterday, the HAI board and initiative announced the HAI 2020 awards and nominations which can be read here in full. This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the end of the first AI Winter in 1980. This was due to the adoption of “expert...