The History of Artificial Intelligence

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Ada Lovelace was a very complex figure in her time, and probably a good full length biography, but somewhat tragic.
She became addicted to drugs, addicted to gambling, you know, gambled away the family jewels, had a pain life with opium, trying to kill the paint.
But so she was not a great figure of history, but she did lay down the idea that machines could do everything except think on their own, that machines could not be creative, that it took the humans to be creative ones, to come up with new ideas.

What do Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Jennifer Doudna all have in common? Celebrated journalist and author Walter Isaacson calls upon his years of research to explain how curiosity has always fueled creativity among history’s greatest innovators, and how each of those individuals shaped the world around them. On this episode Issacson dives deep into the curious obsessions of Jobs, da Vinci’s ability to develop a brilliant mind, Ada Lovelace and how she developed the algorithm, and how Doudna’s work with gene editing could shape the future to come.

A journalist by trade, Issacson served as the editor of Time and then chairman and CEO of CNN before eventually spending 15 years as president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, the international research institute and think tank. Isaacson has also written bestselling biographies on Jobs, da Vinci, Franklin and Albert Einstein, and in 2021 released his latest biography, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.

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