Artificial Intelligence through the ages
summary
A fast chronological tour that ties myths to modern failures with concrete examples: Homer’s autonomous ships and Hephaestus’ tripods as early imaginings, real devices like the 1912 Torres chess automaton and Deep Blue beats Kasparov (1997), and policy failures such as the Scottish exam grading algorithm skewing results by postcode and a US health algorithm that uses past spending as a proxy, disadvantaging Black patients. Covers Asimov, HAL, and outcomes of biased data plus explainability versus black‑box models.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00AI’s historical roots
- 2:38Greek myths of autonomous machines
- 8:2018th century AI philosophy
- 11:11Early chess automata flaws
- 14:23Science fiction visions of intelligent robots
- 18:45Deep Blue’s chess victory
- 20:50Cinematic AI threats
- 23:46Hobopocalypse AI gone rogue
- 26:11Synthetic humans ethics
- 28:17Humanity in AI narratives
- 31:12Algorithmic bias and fairness
- 37:54Explainable AI black boxes
- 40:02Future of AI singularity
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