AIWS History of AI

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....

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...

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,...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman publish “Computers and Thought”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published Computers and Thought, a book composed of articles on artificial intelligence, in 1963. Perhaps the first anthology on the topic, Feigenbaum and Feldman...

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – “In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being”

This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – in 1970 Marvin Minsky was quoted in Life magazine, “In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” Marvin Minsky was interviewed by Life magazine...