1966: ELIZA, the first chatbot, is created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT. ELIZA simulates a Rogerian psychotherapist and demonstrates the potential of simple natural language processing techniques. ELIZA, an early natural language processing program, was designed to...
Remarks by Hon. Mark Kennedy Director, Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition Delivered April 22, 2025 at Boston Global Forum Conference at Harvard University’s Loeb House A profound realignment is underway—not just in global politics, but in global technology. The...
There were recommendations and suggestions from this conference to establish alliances to protect and strengthen democracy to face threats that undermine democracy and threats from China. In July, there were statements and speeches of leaders echoing these...
Current machine learning platforms largely fail to provide time-series predictions because “correlations that have held in the past may simply not continue to hold in the future,” the London-based company causalLens notes. That’s a particular problem in areas like...
The government does not think it necessary to declare a state of emergency over the novel coronavirus again, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said, despite a nationwide surge in the number of cases. “We’re doing careful monitoring with a strong sense of tension, but...
The World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) in partnership with the Boston Global Forum (BGF) is organizing a Policy Lab on Transatlantic Approaches to Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in the Age of Artificial Intelligence that will take place on...
There’s no shortage of promises when it comes to AI. Some say it will solve all problems while others warn it will bring about the end of the world as we know it. Both positions regularly play out in Hollywood plotlines like Westworld, Carbon Black, Minority...
Yasuhide Nakayama, Member of the House of Representatives of Japan, the State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Head of the Japan Liberal Democratic Party’s Foreign Affairs Division, raised concerns and criticized China’s threats to peace and security in the world,...