The Last Invention

• 
  4
• 
  4
• 
  6
• 
  14
• 
  14
• 
  17
• 
  17
• 
  17
• 
  20
• 
  24
• 
  26
• 
  33
• 
  36
• 
  40
• 
  41
• 
  43
• 
  46
• 
  47
• 
  50
• 
  51
• 
  51
• 
  57
• 
  63
• 
  66
• 
  74
• 
  83
• 
  85
• 
  91
• 
  92
• 
  96
• 
  102
• 
  102
• 
  117
• 
  117
• 
  133
• 
  145
• 
  155
• 
  155
• 
  164

The AI revolution has begun – the product of a seventy-year quest by scientists, mathematicians, and visionaries who set out to build machines that could think. But what began as a fringe idea has now become one of the most powerful forces of the 21st century. This is the story of that journey: its rivalries, its competing visions of utopia and apocalypse, and the race to build what may be humanity’s last invention.

• No. of episodes: 3
• Latest episode: 2025-10-02
• Society & Culture Technology Documentary

Where can you listen?