Tim Berners-Lee opened the World Wide Web to the public. While not an AI technology itself, the WWW became the primary historical catalyst for modern AI by creating a global, interconnected digital infrastructure. It initiated the exponential accumulation of raw, unstructured human data—text, hyperlinks, and media—which would later serve as the absolute training fuel for future deep learning architectures.
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