AIWS History of AI

Harvard professors Dr. David Silbersweig and Ruth L. Okediji speak at the Second BGF High Level Dialogue on Regulation Framework for ChatGPT, GPT4 and AI Assistants

The Second BGF High Level Dialogue on Regulation Framework for ChatGPT, GPT4 and AI Assistants provided valuable insights into the complex issues surrounding the use of AI assistants. Speakers emphasized the importance of developing an ethical and responsible...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the creation and expansion of ARPANET

This week in the History of AI at AIWS.net – the creation and expansion of ARPANET. ARPANET stands for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, and was a project that was funded by ARPA and the DoD. While urban myths claim that ARPANET was...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference was hosted on July 1, 2020

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – The Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference was hosted on July 1st, 2020. The subheading of this event was “Protecting and Strengthening Democracy in the Aftermath of COVID-19.” This...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid organized the Online Roundtable “A New Social Contract in the Age of AI”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid organized the Online Roundtable “A New Social Contract in the Age of AI” on May 12, 2020. The Roundtable was organized by the WLA-CdM in conjunction with...

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

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Arthur Samuel popularized 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....

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – MIT receives a $2.2 million grant in 1963 from DARPA

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – MIT receives a $2.2 million grant in June 1963 from DARPA, which was used to fund project MAC. This project included the AI Group of Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy. DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – IBM “Watson” defeats 2 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...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “The Society of Mind” by Marvin Minsky was published

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Marvin Minsky publishes The Society of Mind in 1987. This book is a theoretical description of the mind as a collection of cooperating agents. Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist....

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

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 systems” into corporations in the 90s and Japan’s Fifth Generation Computer project. Expert systems are computer systems...