Artificial Intelligence Between Hopes and Horrors: History and Hype

Citation

Galanos V (2025) Artificial Intelligence Between Hopes and Horrors: History and Hype. Pint of Science, Edinburgh, 20.05.2025. https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/from-disadvantage-to-digital-futures-women-ai-and-the-complexities-of-survival

Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been one of the most contested and controversial topics since its inception in 1955. With recent advances such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or the open use of AI in warfare, it is worth understanding how this term has travelled from scientific labs to science fiction and back. It is a story full of drama and discord among scientists who compete for money and fame using the immense power of human language. AI’s history is one full of hype and disillusionment cycles and this talk will give you all that is needed about AI before anyone tries to AI-splain you things again.