Although the term Artificial Intelligence or AI is relatively new , the concept of non human, artificially made creatures exhibiting human intelligence and emotions can hardly be called new.It can betraced back to mythological tales.the earliest one being a love story from ancient times ,purportedly, written by north african, philostephanus about 2300 years ago.his original story is rumoured to the basis for ovids famous tale ,rewritten about 2000 years ago as pygmalion and the statue,according to the story pygmalion was a sculptor who carved a statue of a beautiful woman out of ivory and then fell inwith her.his love and desire was soo strong that his pleas to the godess venue were answered and she came to life.he married her and they had a son named paphos. intelligence and life from ivory in this case.
Its not only instance of artificial life through the ages.Early judaism mythology also tells the atories of golems or basically creatures made from inanimate matter such as dust and kneaded into life.This one is the earliest mentions of golem found in ancient history.The most famous of all golems however isnt adam , its the golem of prague,which the story goes,was created by rabbi of prague to defend the city and the people againist roman attactsers.The golem is said to have become so fierce and violent that emperor of rome, Rudolf 2 , is said to have begged the rabbi to destroy golem and promised to stop the persecution of the Jews.
But noe the jews claim that adam ,the first Artificial ,man.
In modern times FRankeinstein by Marry Shelly is perhaps a more well known story of an intelligence that was created by man.The most common mistake we all make is to think that Frankeinstein was the monster, whereas the book clearly states that Frankeistein was infact the creator of the monster and the correct usage is "Frankeinstein monster".
Going back to the ancienst times we really see the initiation of ancient AI in the process of mechanising human characteristics or functions.One of the earliest such accounts is perhaps from lie yokou, a chineese philosopher who lived around 400 BC. In a text called Leizi he writes of ancient encounter of the king with rather brilliant engineering called yan shi, in around 950 bc. It is said that yan shi brought a creation to his show off to the king. this creation was an artificial figure which walked and sand like a human and even winked at the ladies present. the king was fooled and furios. He ordered the execution of shi and his companion, until shi showed him that his companion was nothing more than a man made construction of leather, wood and glue and a lot of real integral organs.
MNy people also attribute the very beginnings of our quest for AI to greek ,chineese, indian philosophers who first started world on path of deductive reasoning and logic.Many says its logival approach to thinking that led to information and sciences and mathematics whic is very basis of technology- from the humble PCs of today to the intelligent beings we are trying to create tomorrow.
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