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The field of AI stands at an exciting inflection point—drawing from decades of foundational work, recent innovations in training algorithms, and the explosive growth of compute power and data. The story from Warren McCullock and W. Pitts to ChatGPT exemplifies human ingenuity and the relentless pursuit of creating machines that can understand and generate human-like language.
The next 20 years promise even greater breakthroughs—improved reasoning, more robust multimodal models, and deeper integration of symbolic and neural approaches. For researchers and enthusiasts alike, this is the most promising era to be involved in AI R&D.