AI@50


AI@50, formally known as the "Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years", was a conference organized by James H. Moor, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth workshop which effectively inaugurated the history of artificial intelligence. Five of the original ten attendees were present: Marvin Minsky, Ray Solomonoff, Oliver Selfridge, Trenchard More, and John McCarthy.
While sponsored by Dartmouth College, General Electric, and the Frederick Whittemore Foundation, a $200,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) called for a report of the proceedings that would:
  • Analyze progress on AI's original challenges during the first 50 years, and assess whether the challenges were "easier" or "harder" than originally thought and why
  • Document what the AI@50 participants believe are the major research and development challenges facing this field over the next 50 years, and identify what breakthroughs will be needed to meet those challenges
  • Relate those challenges and breakthroughs against developments and trends in other areas such as control theory, signal processing, information theory, statistics, and optimization theory.
A summary report by the conference director, James H. Moor, was published in AI Magazine.

Conference Program and links to published papers

  • James H. Moor, conference Director, Introduction
  • Carol Folt and Barry Scherr, Welcome
  • Carey Heckman, Tonypandy and the Origins of Science

AI: Past, Present, Future

The Future Model of Thinking

The Future of Network Models

The Future of Learning & Search

The Future of AI

The Future of Vision

The Future of Reasoning

The Future of Language and Cognition

The Future of the Future

AI and Games

Future Interactions with Intelligent Machines

Selected Submitted Papers: Future Strategies for AI

Selected Submitted Papers: Future Possibilities for AI

  • Eric Steinhart, Survival as a Digital Ghost
  • Colin T. A. Schmidt, Did You Leave That 'Contraption' Alone With Your Little Sister?
  • Michael Anderson & Susan Leigh Anderson, The Status of Machine Ethics
  • Marcello Guarini, Computation, Coherence, and Ethical Reasoning