Listen "Early Victorian A.I."
Episode Synopsis
Professor John Tresch – a science historian at the Warburg Institute – in conversation with former Wellcome Institute archivist Ross MacFarlane about three early nineteenth-century inventions that anticipated the programmable electronic computer. These include the Eureka Machine, which created perfectly grammatical Latin poetry. This episode was produced with assistance from the National Lottery, Fitzrovia Noir, and the Tommy Flowers Foundation.
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