The Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2)
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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.
It took AI 70 years to get here, so what can it do for us?
In July 1956, Carnegie Mellon's Herb Simon and Allen Newell presented what is considered the first AI computer program at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. Called the "Logic Theorist," it was designed to mimic human reasoning by proving theorems in math, a narrow goal indeed. Simon and Newell soon followed
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