The 33,000 Horsepower Gamechanger | The Greatest Numbers of All Time

<p>There is nothing random about featuring 33,000 in our number series. It's very powerful. So much so, that the number put millions of horses out of work. Inventor James Watt used “33,000 foot-pounds a minute" to measure the capabilities of a horse when trying to market his new and improved steam engine. The engine was a big success, saving horses from the drudgery of manual labour. Now, a similar process is underway with artificial intelligence — but are we the horses, or the steam engine?<em> *This episode is part of our series, The Greatest Numbers of All Time.</em></p><p><br></p><p>For more in the series:</p><p><a href="https://app.magellan.ai/listen_links/2x4MFS" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Listen to The Curse of 13</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://app.magellan.ai/listen_links/UnQHDR" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Listen to 12 is Sublime</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://app.magellan.ai/listen_links/MB3nPq" rel="noopener noreferr...