Artificial Intelligence
Where Does an AI’s Answer Come From?
An AI may know more than any person could ever learn, yet still fail to know what you mean. Mike and Archie explore knowledge, context, retrieval and the meaning behind two words.
Past
The machines that came before
Explore the mechanical ingenuity, automata, early computation and remarkable inventions that helped shape the machines of today.
Present & future
The machines thinking ahead
Explore artificial intelligence, agents, autonomous systems, automation, software development and the experiments shaping what comes next.
Cog & Code explores a simple idea: many of the technologies we think of as new have much older roots.
From clockwork automata and ingenious mechanical machines to artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and modern software, the tools have changed — but the ambition to make machines observe, decide and act has been with us for centuries.
Here you’ll find stories from that history alongside experiments with the technologies shaping what comes next. Part workshop, part notebook, and part journey through the evolution of intelligent machines.
Artificial Intelligence
An AI may know more than any person could ever learn, yet still fail to know what you mean. Mike and Archie explore knowledge, context, retrieval and the meaning behind two words.
Historical Automata
The Mechanical Turk appeared to play chess more than 250 years ago. Its secret was human, but the illusion raises a surprisingly modern question: where do we decide intelligence resides?