The era of AI Winters and Expert Systems taught computer science humility. It proved that human knowledge is not just a collection of dry textbook facts, but an immense, unquantifiable layer of intuition and cultural context. While dreams of immediately building a conscious robot shattered, engineers left behind something incredibly valuable

mathematical backpropagation algorithms and powerful parallel computers. This formed a massive stockpile of logical ammunition, waiting for the one missing element that would arrive in the next decade—a massive, uncontrolled flood of digital data from the global internet.

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