The Dartmouth Workshop: How $7,500 Launched an Era The term artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous in today's tech landscape, with billions of dollars pouring into AI research and development.
However, few know that this concept was first coined at the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop, a five week conference where four mathematicians – John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and Alan Turing's protégé John von Neumann – gathered to explore the possibilities of machine learning.
The $7,500 investment from the Rockefeller Foundation provided the necessary funding for these visionaries to bring together mathematicians, philosophers, and economists to work on the future of AI.