
Myth-Made Machines: How We Imagined AI
The machine that shouldn't exist: Antikythera and the first AI
<p>In 1901, sponge divers pulled a lump of corroded bronze from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. It took another century to work out what it was: a geared machine that modelled the movements of the heavens, built roughly two thousand years before anything else came close. A machine that, by every rule of history, shouldn't exist.</p><p><br></p><p>Welcome to the pilot episode of Myth-Made Machines, the podcast about how humanity imagined artificial intelligence long before anyone managed to build it. Authors Dave Bradley and Kelly Vero go looking for AI in myth, literature...

