Ishistory

Ishaan
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History isn't a list of dates and names. It's a story. And every story has a moment where everything changed. ishistory is a narrative history podcast that goes inside those moments — the rooms, the arguments, the obsessions, and the people behind the ideas that shaped the world we live in. Right now we are telling the complete story of Artificial Intelligence. 75 episodes. Three tracks. The broad sweep of how AI developed across centuries. The biographical portraits of the people who built it. And deep dives into the specific moments that changed everything.

Episodes

  1. Apr 9

    E1: The Summer AI Was Born (The Dartmouth Conference, 1956)

    In the summer of 1956, ten young men gathered in a quiet New Hampshire college and changed the world — not by solving anything, but by naming it. This episode goes inside the Dartmouth Conference: the room where Artificial Intelligence got its name, the people who were in it, and the single sentence that has driven the most consequential field in modern science for nearly seventy years. We cover the founding conjecture that still powers every AI lab on earth. The two rival visions of intelligence that divided the field from day one — and why the approach that lost the argument in 1956 turned out to be the one that built ChatGPT. The overconfidence that planted the seeds of the first AI winter. And why the question a 28 year old mathematician wrote into a grant proposal in 1955 still does not have a finished answer in 2026. Part of Minds & Machines: The Story of AI — a 75 Episode narrative history from ancient myth to the modern era. No technical background required.

    E1: The Summer AI Was Born (The Dartmouth Conference, 1956)

  2. Apr 4

    A1: The Ancient Dream of Artificial Life

    The story of Artificial Intelligence does not begin in a Silicon Valley garage, or a university laboratory, or even a Victorian drawing room. It begins thousands of years ago, around campfires and in temples and in the workshops of obsessive craftsmen who looked at the human body and asked the most dangerous question in history: could we build one? This episode traces that dream from ancient Greece to the edge of the computer age. From Talos — the bronze automaton built by a god to patrol the coast of Crete — to the Golem of Prague, whose story anticipated the AI alignment problem by eight centuries. From Al-Jazari's 12th century programmable machines to Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical knight. From Descartes drawing the line between mind and machine in 1637 to Mary Shelley asking, in 1818, what a creator owes the thing it has made. Every debate we are having about AI today — about intelligence, about alignment, about emotional attachment to artificial beings, about creator responsibility — was being had before electricity existed. The questions are not new. The urgency is. The first episode of Minds & Machines: The Story of AI — a 75-episode narrative history from ancient myth to the modern era. No technical background required

    A1: The Ancient Dream of Artificial Life
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History isn't a list of dates and names. It's a story. And every story has a moment where everything changed. ishistory is a narrative history podcast that goes inside those moments — the rooms, the arguments, the obsessions, and the people behind the ideas that shaped the world we live in. Right now we are telling the complete story of Artificial Intelligence. 75 episodes. Three tracks. The broad sweep of how AI developed across centuries. The biographical portraits of the people who built it. And deep dives into the specific moments that changed everything.

Information

  • Creator
    Ishaan
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Ishaan
  • Show Website
    Ishistory