Microsoft

Actually, the turning point for me was the Microsoft Kinect in 2010, even though it doesn't use large neural networks.

Memo Akten, Memo Akten on Rituals as Algorithms

And I think still at one of the SIGGRAPHs, I got into a talk with a Microsoft high official, and I had just written my first small program at that time with replacement statements in Microsoft Word. I think you need five replacements and you have HPGL code, which you can submit to a plotter, and it makes a drawing.

Hans Dehlinger, The 1970s Artist-Programmer: Truckenbrod, Dehlinger