In fact, your book presents this development of AI and the dream of AGI in this very ancient context of Augustus in AD 14 or the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70.
The Augustus in England, his voice-- He didn't even make it to the opening.
But there is a sculptor. Her name was Augustus Savage, a Black woman sculptor. It's hard to find many of them.
They come up against a greater talent. Octavian becomes Augustus , Rome's first emperor. But for a moment, it looks as if Cleopatra was going to be the most powerful woman in human history to that date.
Other times, the people come out 'cause they hate the emperor, and they drag the emperor out and cut his nose off or You described that starting with Augustus in the early imperial period, government saw itself as a protector of the Roman citizens, which is a minority of the people living in the, in the Roman
So all those levers are activated, and what they do is they then engage all the levers at one of these sections. but she was a student of Augustus De Morgan, who was trying to find this way of mathematizing logic.
And then we have the end of the republic in the era of Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar, when the civil wars lead to the creation of an imperial monarchy... ...right, under Augustus . So that's, we date that roughly either, yeah, 27 BC, something like that. And thereafter, it is an imperial monarchy for the next millennium and a half.
I mean, how much of this... 'Cause you said they had to create this facade. - Yeah. - Did Augustus , who started the whole thing, the first emperor of Rome, did he have to act that way? 'Cause he kept acting like he's not an absolute- - Yes - ... monarch, and he could have gone hardcore, destroy the Senate, just full hardcore rule, dictatorship.
Oh, you are a live wire. Here, this is Augustus Gloop. His mother just sang a verse in the course, and then he sings this.
So one of the descendants of Julius Caesar, I believe it was Augustus Caesar, he expanded the Roman Empire, and he had fascinatingly a one-line instruction to his generals before they went into battle.
Is that like the secret of how the candy is made? Is that the-- Well, there is a little Augustus in every bit of fudge now, isn't there? We kind of gloss over that.
He left on Friday-- Hi, I'm Augustus .
ideas and Technologies and Innovations and you look at them developing over time you get something a little bit like this this is one of the earliest diagrams of that concept it's by um Augustus pit rivers from 1906 it's called the evolution of culture and in it he imagines how a simple stick is
It's of course a modification of the older Roman calendar. We'll talk about the formation of that under Julius Caesar and the modification under Augustus before Gregory. But its adoption is an interesting story as well.
They're 13 days separated. And this has to do with errors in the calendar going back to Augustus when he reformed the previous errors of Julius Caesar. And it has to do with a fact which may only come to mean anything to you if you actually live to the year
So all those levers are activated, and what they do is they then engage all the levers at one of these sections. The letter about mathematics damaging a woman's constitution is actually from Augustus De Morgan, who wrote to her mother
an aristocracy, but with cooperation from the people of Rome. In various ways, the arrangements change over the centuries. So that lasts for about five centuries. And then we have the end of the republic in the era of Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar, when the civil wars lead to the creation of an imperial monarchy... ...right, under Augustus . So that's, we date that roughly either, yeah, 27 BC, something like that. And thereafter, it is an
And on Monday (IN DEEP VOICE) hi, I'm Augustus .
He set it up in 46, and the calendar actually started to be used in 45 BC. And it replaced an earlier lunar calendar to which I'll return in a few minutes and then again was modified by Augustus in 9 BC. The year numbering system that we use at various times is also an interesting thing to think about.
Now this meant that in the Greek world, there were innumerable-- basically innumerable calendars that had to be negotiated in some way. But this is the old Republican calendar, so before Julius Caesar and Augustus .
Now this meant that in the Greek world, there were innumerable-- basically innumerable calendars that had to be negotiated in some way. Think about the establishment of the seven day week, introduced by Augustus largely, dominant by about the 4th or 5th century.
In 264 to 146 BC, the Punic Wars and the survival against Hannibal transform Rome into a Mediterranean superpower. Then like you mentioned, Caesar in 49 to 31 BC, Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon to assassination of Caesar to the Battle of Actium, and then the Civil War dismantles the Republic and concentrates power in a single ruler, Octavian, AKA Augustus , the first Roman emperor, let's say. Then 27 BC, Augustus founds the Principate, really low-key monarchy. And so officially, that ends the
Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon to assassination of Caesar to the Battle of Actium, and then the Civil War dismantles the Republic and concentrates power in a single ruler, Octavian, AKA Augustus , the first Roman emperor, let's say. Then 27 BC, Augustus founds the Principate, really low-key monarchy. And so officially, that ends the Republic, and then that begins, 27 BC to 180 AD, the Pax Romana, which is a period of relative peace and stability. And a lot of the emperors we know of,
Other times, the people come out 'cause they hate the emperor, and they drag the emperor out and cut his nose off or all chanting, you know, "Worthy" or "Many years for you, Augustus " or something like this. And if that happens, it's great. But if you appear in the Hippodrome and people are,
The way the machine works is the first thing that happens is the variable card, which I always call them address cards What Ada's actual main interest in the machine was in connecting it with the ideas of this guy, who was her mathematics tutor, who's Augustus De Morgan.
Let's turn the clock way back. So not to 1913, and not to the year 1000, but to Rome at the time of Caesar Augustus . In that period in Rome, the prosperity in the core areas of what was then the Roman Empire was actually greater than the prosperity 1,000 years after.
The first is about-- actually the first two-- are about the luck that we all have in being here at all. And I introduce it in the very first part of the book, where I'm talking about my ancestors, including one Clinton George Augustus Dawkins, 1808 to '71. He was the British consul in Venice and he was there during the war against Austria.
- I mean, we should make clear that the monasteries had... They were used as almost like storage for gold. - Yeah. And this goes all the way back to, you know, the Roman Empire where, you know, think of, for example, the Emperor Augustus . When he was writing his will, he put it in the Temple of the Vestal Virgins as well as Mark Antony and Cleopatra. They'd all done that because there's this additional protection of religion-