So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries who pursued unorthodox ideas in the face of widespread criticism. I argue that Mikol

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries who pursued unorthodox ideas in the face of widespread criticism. I argue that Mikolov with word2vec was instrumental in current AI revolution. This demonstrated the easy of extracting meaning in mathematical way from text and directly lead to all advancements we have today with LLMs. And ironically, didn’t require GPU.