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A History of AI Public Perception Zaid Harchaoui Countdown to the Rise of an Artificial Intelligence? Perception of AI The Mecha David in A. I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 2001) Perception of AI Terminators after the rise of

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A History of AI

Public Perception


Zaid Harchaoui

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Countdown to the Rise of an Artificial Intelligence?

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Perception of AI

The Mecha David in “A. I. Artificial Intelligence” (Spielberg, 2001)

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Perception of AI

Terminators after the rise of Skynet “Terminator III” (Mostow, 2003)

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Cybernetics

Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964 1947 1950

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Cybernetics
 Non-linear Systems

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Machines in Pop Culture,
 1940-1950

Electro, crime-fighting robot (Marvel, 1940)

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wiener’s vision

Wiener’s insights

  • 1. problem-solving machines
  • 2. machines making machines
  • 3. acceleration of progress in making machines
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wiener’s vision

Wiener’s insights

  • 1. problem-solving machines
  • 2. machines making machines
  • 3. acceleration of progress in making machines
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Solving problems
 with machines

Mechanical Turk chess-playing automaton, circa 1770

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Fathers of AI

Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1956)

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The Logic Theorist

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The Logic Theorist

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General Problem Solver

Computer program that solves any problem that be expressed with well-formed formulas (Horn Clauses)

  • Towers of Hanoi
  • Euclidean Geometry
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Solving problems
 with machines

Stalin vs Truman

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Solving problems
 with machines

David Levy vs Chess 4.6, 1978

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Solving problems
 with machines

Boris chess-player, 1979

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Solving problems
 with machines

Boris chess-player, 1980s

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Solving problems
 with machines

Fantasies

  • diplomacy
  • generic sequential decision-making
  • machine à gouverner
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Solving problems
 with machines

Problems

  • general problems (1959)
  • chess-playing
  • automatic translation
  • computer vision
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wiener’s vision

Wiener’s insights

  • 1. problem-solving machines
  • 2. machines making machines
  • 3. acceleration of progress in making machines
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machines making machines

Self-reproducing machines

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Self-Improving machines

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Self-Improving machines

Jet-Jaguar defeating Gigan “Godzilla vs Megalon” (Fukuda,1972)

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Self-Improving machines

Jet-Jaguar and Godzilla greetings,
 “Godzilla vs Megalon” (Fukuda,1972)

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Machine Learning

LeNet neural network for digit recognition (LeCun, 1989)

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wiener’s vision

Wiener’s insights

  • 1. problem-solving machines
  • 2. machines making machines
  • 3. acceleration of progress
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Data

Collecting data through social computing and crowdsourcing

AMT

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Large Datasets

ImageNet Image Classification Dataset

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Acceleration of Progress

ImageNet Image Classification Dataset

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AI Scientists
 as Rock-Stars

AI and Yann LeCun in Rolling Stone magazine

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Acceleration of Progress

Strategy

  • gather the most talented people
  • give unprecedented amount of resources
  • focus on particular challenging problems
  • anticipate the outcomes of the technology
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Future of AI
 Symposium

http://cds.nyu.edu/ai/

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Challenges of 
 AI progress

Potential challenges

  • Scientific: safety, control
  • Economic: jobs, employment
  • Societal: personal assistants, education
  • Ethical: values and norms for robots