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I predict that if we ever encounter an alien intelligence, it will be non-biological (or rather, formerly-biological). This is based on the notion that machine intelligence is the normal end-state of evolution, sort of like Marovec's Mind Children.</div>
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<b>From:</b> Connectionists <connectionists-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu> on behalf of Terry Sejnowski <terry@snl.salk.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 17, 2026 11:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> director@inc.ucsd.edu <director@inc.ucsd.edu>; Fellous, Jean-Marc <jmfellous@UCSD.EDU>; connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu <connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: Connectionists: FW: AI@50 videos...</div>
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<div>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>On 8/17/2026 9:18 AM, Fellous, Jean-Marc wrote:</div>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> Connectionists
</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:connectionists-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu" id="OWAb970a7d1-8e34-6337-c462-742937e20401" class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E OWAAutoLink" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u><connectionists-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu></u></a></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
<b>On Behalf Of </b>George Cybenko<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 17, 2026 6:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu" id="OWAdc658d70-09e8-1ccd-3811-206558fcd0d4" class="x_moz-txt-link-abbreviated OWAAutoLink" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu</u></a></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Connectionists: AI@50 videos...</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 2006, we held a 50th anniversary conference at Dartmouth to commemorate</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">the historic 1956 meeting that coined the term "artificial intelligence." At that time,</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">five of the surviving original participants attended. Today they are all gone.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I just recently posted videos of the talks from the AI@50 meeting at</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sites.dartmouth.edu/cybenko/dartmouth-ai50-videos/__;!!Mih3wA!HX5M154b9l4fIHZdxakK00FZ4H1IPqVHrV_pC-lh-4XwoZ6CvDp7SyXZ-ObDk5oWYIct3ux47KDlf3KvyIoMq7VLCwxY0JhC$" id="OWA037605d6-bbee-501f-de78-011277306d21" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" originalsrc="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sites.dartmouth.edu/cybenko/dartmouth-ai50-videos/__;!!Mih3wA!HX5M154b9l4fIHZdxakK00FZ4H1IPqVHrV_pC-lh-4XwoZ6CvDp7SyXZ-ObDk5oWYIct3ux47KDlf3KvyIoMq7VLCwxY0JhC$" data-auth="NotApplicable"><u>https://sites.dartmouth.edu/cybenko/dartmouth-ai50-videos/</u></a></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">INobody foresaw what is happening in AI today and in fact,</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">there were several digs against neural networks etc. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Regards</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Aptos", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">George Cybenko</p>
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<pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 7.5pt;">George Cybenko, Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering</div></pre>
<pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 7.5pt;">Dartmouth College, 8000 Cummings Hall, Hanover NH 03755 USA</div></pre>
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<pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 7.5pt;">email: <span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:gvc@dartmouth.edu" id="OWAd7a4c6b7-3bd3-7f28-4660-a46958ecb709" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext OWAAutoLink" style="color: blue;"><u>gvc@dartmouth.edu</u></a></span></div></pre>
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<pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 7.5pt;">Assistant: <span style="color: black;">Ellen Wirta, 603 646-9672, </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:Ellen.K.Wirta@Dartmouth.edu" id="OWAfcc44114-3ef5-d0d2-b1bb-a80db3063e00" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext OWAAutoLink" style="color: blue;"><u>Ellen.K.Wirta@Dartmouth.edu</u></a></span></div></pre>
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