The reasonable robot : Artificial Intelligence and the law
Ryan Abbott (Author)
"The concept of AI has ancient origins. Around the 8th Century BCE, the Greek poet Homer wrote in the Iliad about Hephaestus, the God of fire and a skilled inventor. He built golden automata, or self-operating machines, to help him work. Not only did Hephaestus build attendants for himself with "intelligence in their hearts" and the "appearance [of] living young women", he also built autonomous vehicles that could travel to and from the home of the gods, and a lethal autonomous weapon system named Talos that patrolled the beaches of Crete"-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2020
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2020