Dartmouth Conference: The $7,500 without Which AI Might Not Exist

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AI before AI (2/3). Nearly 70 years before the frenzy of record-breaking fundraising for modern AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, the Rockefeller Foundation made what is perhaps the first investment in the history of AI. In 1956, thanks to $7,500 from this foundation, four brilliant mathematicians organized the Dartmouth Colloquium where the term artificial intelligence was uttered for the first time.