The Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2)
Some 70 years before the current frenzy of record-breaking fundraising by modern AI giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic, the Rockefeller Foundation made what may have been the first investment in the history of AI. With a $7,500 grant from the foundation in 1956, four eminent mathematicians organised The Dartmouth Workshop, where the term “artificial intelligence” was first coined.
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The Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2) Why it matters: Deprecations can break production agents quickly. Teams should audit dependencies and ship migration patches before cutoffs. Source: France 24 https://a2zai.ai/bytes/the-dartmouth-works...
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