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A brief history of AI from ancient times to the present day

by Kristy Anamoutou

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6.7 Conclusion — What This Revolution Teaches Us

January 18, 2026 · 17 min

What the Deep Learning Revolution Teaches Us: Conclusion and opening toward the future From AlexNet to ChatGPT. From DeepMind to DeepSeek. From Mistral to African-language models. From the AI Act to silicon gardens. Six continents. Fifteen…
6.6 Oceania — Archipelago of Innovation

January 18, 2026 · 12 min

Archipelago of Innovation: How Australia seeks its place in the AI revolution Australia produces one point six percent of global AI research — but only zero point two percent of patents. The Australian paradox: scientific excellence is not…
6.5 Middle East — Silicon Gardens

January 18, 2026 · 16 min

Silicon Gardens: How the desert became an artificial intelligence laboratory In 2017, the United Arab Emirates appointed Omar Al Olama as Minister of Artificial Intelligence. He was thirty years old. It was a world first. This was not a…
6.4 Europe — Rule and Exception

January 18, 2026 · 15 min

Rule and Exception: How Europe regulated AI and made Mistral emerge from the improbable In 2016, AlphaGo defeated the world champion of Go. In 2020, AlphaFold solved the protein folding problem. In 2024, Demis Hassabis received the Nobel…
6.3 Asia — The New Center of Gravity

January 18, 2026 · 17 min

The New Center of Gravity: How Asia became the beating heart of global artificial intelligence In May 2023, a Chinese company named DeepSeek was founded. Less than two years later, its models rivaled those of OpenAI — at a fraction of the…

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6.2 Americas — Godfathers and Giants

January 18, 2026 · 19 min

Godfathers and Giants: How America created deep learning and became the theater of the AI race During the winters of artificial intelligence — those periods when no one believed — three researchers persisted. Geoffrey Hinton in Toronto…
6.1 Africa — The Quantum Leap

January 18, 2026 · 21 min

The Quantum Leap: How Africa built its own models and revealed the biases of global AI The electron, physicists say, does not cross the space between two orbits. It disappears from one and appears in the other. A quantum leap.Africa made…
6.0 Introduction — The Deep Learning Revolution

January 18, 2026 · 14 min

The Deep Learning Revolution: How fifteen years upended everything we thought we knew about intelligence On September 30, 2012, in a bedroom at his parents' house, a Canadian doctoral student trained a neural network on two video game…
5.7 Conclusion — What the Information Age Left Us

January 11, 2026 · 26 min

What the Information Age Left Us: Conclusion and Opening Toward the Deep Learning Revolution From the CSIRAC in Sydney to the WEIZAC in Rehovot. From the ruins of Berlin to Bletchley Park laboratories. From M-Pesa in Kenya to TSMC in…
5.6 Oceania — The Antipodes of Innovation

January 11, 2026 · 21 min

The Antipodes of Innovation: How Geographic Isolation Became an Advantage In November 1949, in Sydney, a machine of two thousand vacuum tubes executed its first calculation. The CSIRAC joined an exclusive club: stored-program computers…
5.5 Middle East — Gardens of the Desert

January 11, 2026 · 26 min

Gardens of the Desert: How Necessity Made Innovation Bloom in the Middle East No one expects flowers in the desert. Yet that is where they grow fastest — when the rain finally comes. In 1954, a six-year-old country undertook to build a…
5.4 Europe — Digital Reconstruction

January 11, 2026 · 28 min

Digital Reconstruction: How Europe Invented the Computer, Scuttled Its Future, and Rebuilt Itself Europe invented the computer twice. The first time in secret. The second time in oblivion. In 1941, Konrad Zuse completed the Z3 in Berlin…

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About the show

AI didn't begin with ChatGPT. For curious minds and history geeks, this narrative podcast traces the history of artificial intelligence as a millennial human adventure across civilizations. From 8th-century BCE Greek automata to the 11th-century African Ifá binary system, from Al-Jazari's Islamic robotics to Japanese karakuri—discover how humanity dreamed of intelligent machines millennia before computers. Each episode (15-20 min) explores AI beyond pure technology: history, culture, philosophy. https://us.histoire-ia.fr/introduction