AIWS History 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”

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...

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....

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....