The Internet is a modern invention, yet the aspiration to create some all-knowing, omniscient mechanical device with an answer to everything—a hubristic, artificial version of God—has a much longer history than the formal inauguration of the World Wide Web back in 1991. A Brass or Brazen Head was an imaginary medieval Artificial Intelligence-type device, said in legends to have been possessed…
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