The Promethean Parallel: Why the "Godfather of AI" can be compared to Alfred Nobel
History rarely repeats itself perfectly, but it often rhymes through the lives of its most significant creators. In the 1860s, a Swedish chemist stabilized the world’s most volatile substance to build the infrastructure of the modern age; in the 1980s, a cognitive psychologist stabilized the mathematical "chaos" of neural networks to build the infrastructure of the digital age.