AI Evolution Episodes
Understand the historical trajectory of artificial intelligence, tracing its journey from inception to its present transformative role in society.
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July 3, 2026
70 Years of AI History in Under 8 Minutes | EP 2
In 1956, ten researchers at Dartmouth College promised to build a thinking machine in two months. Seventy years later, ChatGPT hit 100 million users faster than any product in history, DeepSeek wiped half a trillion dollars off Nvidia in a single day, and autonomous AI agents started booking flights, filing taxes, and writing code. This episode is the complete story of how we got here. Alex Smith, founder of Instant AI and host of Super Confident AI, walks through the full history of artif...
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June 27, 2026
The US Government Just Shut Down the Most Powerful AI | EP 1
The US government used export controls to shut down Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5 AI models in under 90 minutes, marking the first time federal authority targeted a live AI model instead of hardware. Alex Smith, founder of Instant AI and host of Super Confident AI, walks through exactly how Amazon reportedly found a jailbreak in its own partner's model and took it to the Commerce Department instead of Anthropic. He explains export controls in plain English, breaks down why foreign nationa...