Connectionists: FW: AI at 50 videos...

[Terry Sejnowski]

Jean-Marc -

I was there and gave a talk, the only one on neural networks.  I learned 
a lot from the other speakers.

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.

One of the questions at the end was about intelligent aliens who appear 
and don't have human brains.
This was a set piece in my recent book on ChatGPT and the Future of AI, 
where ChatGPT is the alien.

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.

Terry

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On 8/17/2026 9:18 AM, Fellous, Jean-Marc wrote:
>
> 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!
>
> *From:*Connectionists <connectionists-bounces at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu> 
> *On Behalf Of *George Cybenko
> *Sent:* Monday, August 17, 2026 6:00 AM
> *To:* connectionists at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu
> *Subject:* Connectionists: AI at 50 videos...
>
> In 2006, we held a 50th anniversary conference at Dartmouth to commemorate
>
> the historic 1956 meeting that coined the term "artificial 
> intelligence."  At that time,
>
> five of the surviving original participants attended.  Today they are 
> all gone.
>
> I just recently posted videos of the talks from the AI at 50 meeting at
>
> https://sites.dartmouth.edu/cybenko/dartmouth-ai50-videos/ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sites.dartmouth.edu/cybenko/dartmouth-ai50-videos/__;!!Mih3wA!HX5M154b9l4fIHZdxakK00FZ4H1IPqVHrV_pC-lh-4XwoZ6CvDp7SyXZ-ObDk5oWYIct3ux47KDlf3KvyIoMq7VLCwxY0JhC$>
>
> INobody foresaw what is happening in AI today and in fact,
>
> there were several digs against neural networks etc.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Regards
>
> George Cybenko
>
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