From Bits to Bots: A History of AI

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Our technologically-challenged hosts Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell trace the history of Artificial Intelligence from Greek Mythology, via Alan Turing and the Speak and Spell to the rapid developments we’re seeing today. Should we be afraid of our robot overlords? Will AI ever be able to deliver a lighthearted History podcast? Maybe it already has... Reading List: The Brain Makers: The History of Artificial Intelligence – Genius, Ego, And Greed In The Quest For Machines That Think - HP Newquist Get all episodes a week early – when you support We Are History on Patreon: https://patreon.com/WeAreHistory Angela Barnes is on tour with her critically acclaimed, sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Hot Mess’. Tickets are available here https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Audio production by Simon Williams and artwork by James Parrett. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production. https://twitter.com/wearehistorypod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History with me John O'Farrell.
0:07.7	And me, Angela Barnes.
0:10.1	So Angela, you've chosen today's topic?
0:13.5	Or did you?
0:15.0	Maybe you are just in the pay of our robot overlords.
0:19.5	Well, John, you will never know for sure. But I think what
0:22.9	you're referring to is the fact that my chosen topic for today is the history of AI. And I'm really
0:28.9	hoping, John, that you've read that right in my notes and you haven't spent the week
0:31.6	researching the history of a bloke called Al. Oh, I'm not that old and stupid Angela. No, I've been researching aluminium.
0:41.1	So, John, AI, it's been a bit of a hot topic recently. And we're both writers. So it's probably
0:47.7	something that we need to be aware of and thinking about. The Writers Guild of America have been
0:52.9	out on strike. And a big part of
0:54.4	their concerns is a future role of AI when it comes to writing film, TV and other media.
1:01.2	Absolutely. So I thought it would be good for us to see what we're dealing with, John. And just
1:05.2	look at how AI is developed and got to where we are. Yeah. So I've been playing, John, to see what we're dealing with.
1:11.9	I've been playing with something called ChatGBT.
1:14.5	Do you know what that is?
1:15.8	I've heard of it.
1:16.7	It's Chat Generative, pre-trained Transformer.
1:20.4	Is that right?
1:21.6	That's right, John.
1:22.5	Yeah, you definitely got that right out of your brain, didn't you?
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