The Ratio Club and the rise of British cybernetics – tech podcast

Alex Hearn takes a look back at the 'no professors allowed' informal dining club The Ratio Club which laid the foundations for the British cybernetics movement and, ultimately, artificial intelligence

Subscribe and review on iTunes, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast, or on your favourite podcasting app and join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter

Writing in his journal on 20 September 1949, English psychiatrist Ross Ashby noted that six days earlier he had attended a meeting of young minds in the basement of the National Hospital for Nervous Disease in London. But what was discussed? Who else was in attendance? And how would the regular meetings of the Ratio Club change the face of British cybernetics and, latterly, the artificial intelligence we see all around us today?