The Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2)

In nineteen fifty-six, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded a seven thousand five hundred dollar grant to fund the Dartmouth Workshop—what may have been the first-ever investment in artificial intelligence. Per France 24, four eminent mathematicians organized the conference where the term 'artificial intelligence' was first coined. The contrast with today's record-breaking fundraising, where companies like OpenAI and Anthropic command billions, underscores how far the field has come.

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