What happens when the intelligence we created can read almost everything humanity has ever written, and reason across it faster than any human being ever could?

This episode explores one of the most profound questions emerging from artificial intelligence: if humans supplied the knowledge and taught machines how to reason, could artificial intelligence eventually become better at thinking than its teachers?

The question becomes even more fascinating when we enter the world of religion.

For thousands of years, humans have written, preserved, translated and debated sacred texts including the Bible, Quran, Torah, Bhagavad Gita, Vedas, Upanishads, Buddhist teachings and Guru Granth Sahib. These works are more than repositories of information. They carry humanity's attempts to understand morality, suffering, purpose, death, conscious ...