The Origins of Artificial Intelligence

the Thinking Machine ​Chapter 1: The Seeds of Logic (Ancient Times – 19th Century) ​The story begins

millennia ago with the dream of creating an artificial being. Ancient myths and legends speak of

automatons—mechanical men built by gods or ingenious craftsmen. Figures like the bronze giant Talos

in Greek myth, or the intricate clockwork figures of the Islamic Golden Age,

show that humans have always been fascinated by the idea of an unnatural intelligence.

​The real, scientific seeds were planted in the 17th century with thinkers like

Gottfried Leibniz, who dreamed of a universal calculus ratiocinator—a machine that could resolve

all disputes through pure calculation. ​By the 19th century, Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage