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SUMMARY:Hype Springs Eternal: AI\, Memory\, and War
LOCATION:Uris Hall G08\, Central Campus
DESCRIPTION:In 1958\, the Office of Naval Research unveiled the Perceptron
 \, the first neural network for artificial intelligence\, created by Corn
 ell psychologist Frank Rosenblatt. The Navy expected it to read and write
  within a year. Nearly seventy years later\, the Pentagon is again bettin
 g on AI to revolutionize war\, while industry leaders promise that recurs
 ive self-improvement and superintelligence are just around the corner. Wh
 y does the military accept exceptional expectations about AI despite repe
 ated disappointment? Part of the answer is rethinking technology hype. Be
 cause we cannot fact-check the future\, hype is better understood as perf
 ormative discourse than as exaggeration. This expectant\, dramatic\, and 
 imminent discourse can be studied in real time\, regardless of whether it
  proves true. Part of the answer is remembering forgetfulness. Learning s
 upposedly tempers expectations\, but forgetting can reset them. I trace A
 I hype from Dartmouth and DARPA through the Lighthill Report\, Strategic 
 Computing\, and the Third Offset. I show that hype runs on both hope and 
 fear\, and that the exceptional expectations it evokes cycle as technical
  performance and forgetting interact.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nFrank L. Sm
 ith III is the director of the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute (CIP
 I)\, part of the Strategic and Operational Research Department in the Cen
 ter for Naval Warfare Studies at the U.S. Naval War College. Smith was pr
 eviously a senior lecturer in the Department of Government and Intern\n\n
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