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What Is AI?

Wes Locher, Who HQ

Written by
Wes Locher, Who HQ
Length
1 hr 11 min
Rating
5.0 / 5
Listed
$7.20
Series
What-? by Who HQ
Publisher
Listening Library
Released
2026-05-05

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What it is

Have you ever wondered how AI came to be? How did ChatGPT develop? Who is “Siri”? Find out everything you need to know about the rise of AI and advancing technology, including future applications and concerns, in this informative book.

It all began in 1822 when an English mathematician created the “Difference Engine,” the world’s first mechanical calculating machine. Fast-forward two hundred years, and cars are beginning to drive themselves! How did this technology advance? Over a series of trials and errors, steps forward and back, AI, or artificial intelligence, has most steadily developed since the 1950s. By the '90s, AI technology began interacting with people in laboratories and at conferences, dazzling the world with its impressive knowledge and capabilities. The simulation of human intelligence by machines continues to revolutionize healthcare, transportation, and efficiency across the world. Learn all about this problem-solving facet of the computer science industry and where it might take us in the future.

About the series

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  2. · What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?5.0
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  4. · What Is the Civil Rights Movement?5.0
  5. · What is the Women's Rights Movement?4.9
  6. · What is Climate Change?3.3
  7. · What Is the Story of Cinderella?
  8. · What Do We Know About Spontaneous Human Combustion?5.0
  9. · What Is AI?5.0
  10. · What Is Black Lives Matter?4.0
  11. · What Are the Northern Lights?
  12. · What Are Castles and Knights?4.9
  13. · What Was the Harlem Renaissance?5.0
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  15. · What Was Reconstruction?5.0
  16. · What Is the Story of the Headless Horseman?3.5
  17. · What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?5.0
  18. · What Is the Super Bowl?4.4
  19. · What Is the Story of Anne of Green Gables?
  20. · What Are Taylor Swift's Eras?
  21. · What Is the Supreme Court?3.3
  22. · What is the Constitution?3.9
  23. · What Is a Presidential Election?: 2024 Edition4.0
  24. · What Was the Titanic?4.5

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