TechThe Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2)
About seven decades before today’s AI giants began attracting record-breaking sums, the Rockefeller Foundation made what could have been the field’s first investment. In 1956, its $7,500 grant enabled four prominent mathematicians to organise the Dartmouth Workshop. The meeting marked the first use of the term “artificial intelligence,” giving the emerging field its name.
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The Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2)
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