Is there an Old World precursor to “Artificial Intelligence?” Automatons/ Brazen Heads/ Antiquitech

Howdy y'all. Welcome back. Is there a

precursor to modern artificial

intelligence? As society is ushered into

the modern age of computing, really,

whether we like it or not, it appears

nearly every aspect of our lives is

being integrated with some form of

artificial intelligence. While even the

Wi-Fi in your home can effortlessly map

your environment, the question becomes,

does anyone truly desire this invasion

of privacy under the guise of new

technology? Seeing many new faces here

visiting my channel lately has obviously

erupted the comment sections in my last

few videos into a place where some

people seem to be a bit confused about

who I am or what the goal of my channel

is. One, I will never and have never

used AI on my channel. I feel like that

goes without saying, but apparently

there's hundreds of other channels out

there that are not so honest. Some new

viewers have also claimed that my voice

is AI. For those of you that have been

here for years with my channel, those

comments are probably pretty laughable.

This is me. Take it or leave it, but I

definitely ask that those of you who are

benefiting from the research that I

share with you to be mindful of those

trying to misdirect you. I'm here simply

to share with you the same research that

I conduct with my honest reaction to

what I discovered mixed in with a review

of the currently accepted history. I

share the current narrative for a few

different reasons, but the main one

being to give you the ability to see the

anomalies in the narrative for yourself,

as comparing the narrative to the

photographs tends to reveal tiny details

that may have slipped through an initial

viewing. I also share the current

narrative with you with at least a hint

of irony and sarcasm, which again, I'm

pretty sure you can hear it in my voice.

The photographs I share with you always

come from sources that are given with

the titles, locations, and photographers

for each image when applicable. I spend

hours daily researching because it's one

of my favorite things to do, and I find

myself within museums asking for the

oldest photographs. Private collectors,

online forums, and historical archives

round out the assortment of where I

locate these images for you. The

fragmenting of our online collective,

this research community is currently

happening and it seems to be targeted

with channels like mine taking a brunt

of the criticism for the work of others

that are new that I really know nothing

about. So be mindful as this channel is

a creation on my own with my research

being the basis for everything that I

discuss and share with you. There is no

outside influence on my channel other

than you, the viewer, and how my

research has helped you. Before the

onslaught of AI flooded the YouTube

landscape, I was already here making

these videos for you, and I plan to

continue sharing my research with you

for as long as it helps you. However, as

AI seems to be the hot button discussion

over the last few months, with access to

AI being pushed on nearly every person

who actively uses technology, it becomes

a rather daunting task to explain the

origins of artificial intelligence.

It appears that it wasn't always digital

and rather than being made available to

everyone like it is now, the oldworld

version of this was coveted by kings,

alchemists, and people claiming to be

living gods. Jeffrey Chaucer's The

Canterberry Tales was written between

the years 1387

through roughly 1400. In one tale known

as the squire's tale, Gangask Khan and

his family are celebrating the 20th

anniversary of his reign in grand

ceremony. A strange figure who

identifies himself as a knight enters

the Khan's doicile for the feast,

presenting himself as a messenger from

the king of Arabia and India. The

messenger does not arrive empty-handed,

bringing with him multiple seemingly

magical items. The first is a brass

horse, which can teleport, which we

might see today as some sort of

mechanical vehicle that traveled so fast

the metaphor it could teleport was used.

The other gifts are more unexplainable

as the knight gives Genghis a magic

mirror which would reveal the truth

about the king's enemies and

acquaintances. This motif would become

very common during the Renaissance,

depicting a sort of device with remote

viewing capabilities. Think a crystal

ball. The knight also gives the K a ring

that was said to have empowered the

wearer to both communicate with and

control birds. And finally, Genghis also

receives the master sword, which was

said to have death touch or the ability

to end the life of whomever it came in

contact with. Reversely, this master

blade was also said to have the ability

to heal these wounds. While I truly

don't have an explanation for the latter

two gifts the con receive, I would like

to focus more on the mechanical or

automaton horse and the magic or talking

mirror.

The strange part here is right off the

bat, the current narrative explains the

repeated use of magic mirrors or crystal

ballike devices and talking automatons

throughout European history as caused by

society placing allegorories on the

alchemical teachings brought to Europe

from the Islamic world. Yet in itself,

that argument has many apparent holes,

including the fact that for the most

part, Europe forgot the alchemical

teachings. the ancient sciences of

Greece and Rome. And these concepts were

only rediscovered when ancient Greek and

Roman teachings were reintroduced to

Europe from the Islamic world. For

example, the well-known tallows, a

gigantic man made of bronze, was known

throughout ancient Europe as the

guardian of Manoan cre. And the

widespread documentation of automatons

in ancient Greek and Roman sources is

also wellnown. It's as if when Rome

fell, the magic seemingly left the

European world. This oddly goes hand

inhand with architecture as well.

According to the current narrative, the

architectural principles that dominated

the world from roughly the year 1300

through roughly 1900, the same

principles that are given credit as the

source for the thousands of oldw world

structures we have studied on my

channel. Well, those principles of

architecture were supposedly lost when

Rome fell as Europe plummeted into the

dark ages. What's strange here is as

Europe basically forgot how to build

magnificent oldw world architecture, we

have the same sort of elegant Romanesque

buildings being founded across the

Middle East and Northern Asia. The

reintroduction of alchemical teachings

to Europe went handinhand with the

rediscovery of Vuvius's work on

architecture itself being a key facet

that sparked Europe into the

Renaissance. However, looking into when

these mythical tales started to become

accepted as fact, we actually have a

talking bronze head first described in

1125 appearing in the history of the

English kings written by William of

Msbury.

In this tale that's recorded as being

somewhat historically accurate, we're

told that Pope Sylvester II kept, among

other things, a magically imbued talking

head made of bronze, which he had

discovered on pilgrimage to the most

sacred and secretive sites in the

Moorish Iberian Peninsula. Furthermore,

the passage goes as far as claiming the

Pope had in his possession a cornucopia

of sacred artifacts which he had taken

from the Islamic world with the most

prized of them not being the talking

head but rather a tome of sacred

knowledge which the article claims that

Sylvester had to conquer a fallen angel

to secure. This bronze head was said to