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Jean-Marc -<br>
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I was there and gave a talk, the only one on neural networks. I
learned a lot from the other speakers.<br>
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I just listened to the questions at the end of my talk. I pretty
much predicted what was going to happen in AI and thought it would
take 50 years. I was wrong, it took less than 20 years.<br>
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One of the questions at the end was about intelligent aliens who
appear and don't have human brains.<br>
This was a set piece in my recent book on ChatGPT and the Future of
AI, where ChatGPT is the alien.<br>
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I gave my version of that meeting in my first book on the Deep
Learning Revolution. Every talk that reported progress did so
because they had enough data to analyze, including Gene Charniak who
was trying to parse sentences and Takeo Kanade working on computer
vision (These two talks are not included in the list). At the end
Marvin Minsky accused them for just working on applications, not
real AI.<br>
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Terry<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/17/2026 9:18 AM, Fellous,
Jean-Marc wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In case you did not see this: Some amazing
lectures and (now historical) perspectives… the most
interesting parts are when they tried and predicted the future
of AI!<o:p></o:p></p>
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Connectionists
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:connectionists-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu"><connectionists-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu></a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>George Cybenko<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 17, 2026 6:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu">connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Connectionists: AI@50 videos...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In 2006, we held a 50th anniversary
conference at Dartmouth to commemorate<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the historic 1956 meeting that coined the
term "artificial intelligence." At that time,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">five of the surviving original participants
attended. Today they are all gone.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I just recently posted videos of the talks
from the AI@50 meeting at<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sites.dartmouth.edu/cybenko/dartmouth-ai50-videos/__;!!Mih3wA!HX5M154b9l4fIHZdxakK00FZ4H1IPqVHrV_pC-lh-4XwoZ6CvDp7SyXZ-ObDk5oWYIct3ux47KDlf3KvyIoMq7VLCwxY0JhC$"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://sites.dartmouth.edu/cybenko/dartmouth-ai50-videos/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">INobody foresaw what is happening in AI
today and in fact,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">there were several digs against neural
networks etc. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Enjoy!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">George Cybenko<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre><span style="font-size:7.5pt">George Cybenko, Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:7.5pt">Dartmouth College, 8000 Cummings Hall, Hanover NH 03755 USA<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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