Sure, artificial intelligence didn't start in Silicon Valley and it didn't start recently. Long before today's AI boom, a Black scientist from Centralia, Illinois, laid critical groundwork that modern AI systems still rely on.

Well, they break down the legacy of David Blackwell(photo below born 1919 and died in 2010), who was a pioneering mathematician and statistician whose work in probability theory, game theory, and decision-making under uncertainty directly influences how machines learn, optimize, and make decisions today. From Markov decision processes to statistical inference, Blackwell's contributions shaped the mathematical foundation of artificial intelligence, yet his name is rarely mentioned.

This is the history many were never taught. The only ppl who definitely heard of him or know him are mostly Whites. Ha-ha-ha!!



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