Before AI: Humans Were Building Robots Thousands of Years Ago

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What We Did Before

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Before modern inventions and conveniences, humans had ingenious ways of solving problems. So how exactly did humans survive before fridges, without clothes or before surnames were invented? Find out the answers to these questions and more, right here. Hosted by Ollie Guillou.

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Before AI: Humans Were Building Robots Thousands of Years Ago

What We Did Before

58 minutes 52 seconds

2 weeks ago

Before AI: Humans Were Building Robots Thousands of Years Ago

AI has been a part of our life for a lot longer than we realise - even if it does feel suffocating right now. And humanity’s obsession with self-operating machines actually extends right back into our ancient past.

So what was life like before AI became such a powerful force in our world?

In this episode we tackle the surprisingly early history of humanity’s foray into autonomous machines - namely with ‘automatons’ like the antikythera mechanism. How the groundwork for AI and robots began in the early 1900s. And how AI powered technology has been running our lives way before ChatGPT came along.

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