IDG Connect Machine Learning: Myths, science fiction and the Singularity

"And then Hephaestus, Olympian god of fire, created a massive automaton out of bronze." Known as Talos, the giant creation was to protect the island of Crete. "On seeing strangers approach, he enveloped himself in fire and engulfed them." Or so the Greek myth goes. Our fascination with machines that can think is rooted in our collective histories.