The Humans behind the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

Alan Turing, the British mathematician, is widely recognized as being one of the first people to come up with the idea of artificial intelligence in 1950. However the idea of a thinking machine existed as early as 2500 B.C., when the Egyptians sought mystical advice from talking statues. In the Cairo Museum, there is a bust of, Re-Harmakis, an Egyptian God, whose neck reveals the secret of his genius: an opening at the nape just big enough to hold a priest. Automata, the predecessors of today's robots, date back to ancient Egyptian figurines with movable limbs like those found in Tutankhamen's tomb. It took the invention of the Analytical Engine by Charles Babbage in 1833 to make artificial intelligence a real possibility.