AIWS Roundtabe about “Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning”

The History of AI will be organizing an AIWS Roundtable on February 17, 2023, 9:00 am, EST, to discuss the Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning, written by renowned AI researcher Jürgen Schmidhuber. The roundtable will bring together experts...

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....

How Artificial Intelligence Found the Words To Kill Cancer Cells

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and IBM Research have created a virtual library of thousands of “command sentences” for cells using machine learning. These “sentences” are based on combinations of “words”...

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....

G20: Education and Digital Transformation

“Civil 20” or C-20 is the civil society engagement group with the G-20, of which India is the chair this year. Under the chairmanship of the spiritual and humanitarian leader Mata Amritandanayi, C-20 has established thirteen working groups,...

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...

Risks of ChatGPT of OpenAI and how to manage them

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a conversational language model that was trained on a dataset of internet conversations. Like any artificial intelligence (AI) system, it has certain risks and limitations that should be considered when using it. Some of the...

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,...

Ambassador Mbugua Martin Kimani tweets about ChatGPT

Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mbugua Martin Kimani tweets about ChatGPT: #ChatGPT by @OpenAI is the most exciting technological development! I just used it to combine 5 briefs into a good first draft. Then I...