Innovation Iceberg
#evolution
In 1955, a young assistant professor of Mathematics organized a group of people at Dartmouth College. That summer project became known as The Dartmouth Workshop launching the field of artificial intelligence in 1956. AI, like all other innovations, comes from a long and deep prehistory of failures. As computer power became more affordable there was a short period of improvement and rivalries before one of the fields many winters came. Most people believe innovation happens all at once when they see ChatGPT has a crazy breakthrough, but this was only the final phase of evolutionary trial and error that created it.