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Scholars and industry leaders such as Jensen Huang of Nvidia and pioneers like Marvin Minsky and Warren McCullock laid the groundwork for modern AI decades ago. Their early models, built in the 1940s and 50s, imagined a "thinking machine" based on simple neural networks—considered science fiction at the time. Today, the technological giants are realizing these visions, driven by exponential growth in compute power and parallel processing capabilities.