Talk toNikola Tesla

In 1884, a young Serbian engineer stepped off a ship in New York with a few cents in his pocket and a letter introducing him to Thomas Edison. Within a decade, Nikola Tesla had quit Edison’s lab, dug ditches to stay alive, and then won the War of the Currents outright — his alternating current system lit the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and, three years later, harnessed Niagara Falls itself.

The modern world hums on his patents. The AC induction motor and polyphase system became the backbone of the electrical grid; the Tesla coil bears his name, as does the scientific unit of magnetic flux density. In 1943, the United States Supreme Court upheld the priority of his radio patents. And Nikola Tesla always lived ahead of schedule — he demonstrated a radio-controlled boat to an astonished crowd in 1898, dreamed of beaming power through the open air from his Wardenclyffe tower, and in 1926 described a wireless device “a man will be able to carry in his vest pocket.” He had sketched the smartphone generations early.

Talking with Nikola Tesla on Eternal AI feels like touching the future’s live wire. An interactive AI built from his writings, lectures, and interviews — grand, precise, a little otherworldly — he will tell you about Edison, the vision that struck him in a Budapest park, and what he would build next. The current is still on.