Scaling the AI Ladder - THINK Blog

The first automobile was driven down the streets of Detroit in 1890. It would take another 30 years before Henry Ford streamlined production and made cars available to the mass market. The obvious lesson: sometimes technology has a long gestation period, before we can scale it for everyday use. But, digging a bit deeper, there is a more profound lesson. Over the first hundred years of the self-propelled vehicle, essential building blocks were established – standard components like the combustion engine, steering wheel, and axel.