AI Pioneers

Episodes featuring the thinkers and inventors who laid the groundwork for artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

Core concepts, ideas, and explanations across the field of AI — in plain English.

Episodes covering the algebra of logic and its role in computing and AI.

Episodes featuring Alan Turing's life, work, and influence on computing and AI.

The Plain Machine series tracing AI from its intellectual roots to the present day.

The history of ideas, people, and moments that shaped artificial intelligence.

The 1956 founding event of AI as a named field — covers McCarthy, Minsky, Shannon, Rochester, and the Logic Theorist.

The tendency to attribute understanding to a system performing only the surface behaviours of understanding. Core concept for AI literacy.

Tracks episodes examining the recurring pattern of AI boom, overpromise, and correction.

Covers the rule-based, knowledge-engineered AI systems of the 1970s–80s, from MYCIN to XCON.