Did you think that Artificial Intelligence belonged to the future and science projects? Then you will be surprised to know that the concept of Artificial Intelligence is nothing new. In fact examples of beings with Artificial Intelligence were found even in ancient Greek Mythology. Let us consider these little known examples of Artificial Intelligence from the past.

Talos of Crete, Pygmalion’s Galatea and the golden Robots of Hephaestus are all associated with Artificial Intelligence. Why restrict the past to Greek Mythology even the Egyptians had animated statues. Not to mention the humanoids built by King Mu of Zhou. An intelligence like that poccessed by humans but in a vessel which is not human has fascinated philosophers and scientists for ages.

Poet Percy B. Shelley’s wife Mary Shelley is famous for writing the story of Frankenstein. A sub human artificial intelligence robot built up of salvaged human parts. The story is a gory representation of the way we tend to see artificial intelligence in any creature which is not born human.

Even Asimov was fascinated with robots and how it was possible to make them safe for humans. Remember the directives that any programmed Robot had to follow? So we can see that Artificial Intelligence is a subject which has fascinated human beings for ages. How close we are to developing such independent thinking robots is yet to be seen, but it is an ongoing science experiment open for participation.