It’s June 18th: That’s International Panic Day, International Picnic Day, and this year the 70th anniversary of Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence.

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field.

Around June 18, 1956, the earliest participants (perhaps only Ray Solomonoff, maybe with Tom Etter) arrived at the Dartmouth campus in Hanover, N.H., to join John McCarthy who already had an apartment there. Solomonoff and Minsky stayed at Professors’ apartments, but most would stay at the Hanover Inn.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

Join us for The Shortest History of AI by Toby Walsh followed by ‘panic’ discussion with Clemens Wasner on the latest AI developments (US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, …) in a ‘picnic’ environment moderated by Sarah Kriesche.

To participate in the talks via Zoom (Password: 0dzqxqiy)

The talk will be live streamed on Youtube

From the book, and the inspiration for this event:

Trailer:

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