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The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention, more than 2,500 years ago. In this groundbreaking account of the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create artificial life, Adrienne Mayor tells the fascinating story of how ancient Greek, Roman, Indian, and Chinese myths envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices, and human enhancements - and how these visions relate to and reflect the ancient invention of real animated machines.

Griffins, cyclopes, monsters, and giants - these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? Through careful research and meticulous documentation, Adrienne Mayor convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact - in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans.

Palabras Mayores es un programa dedicado a los séniors, coninformación de interés para este colectivo, intentando ofrecer unaimagen más real de las personas mayores en nuestro país, y de su papelen nuestra sociedad. Presentado por Juni Loro.

The following story was written entirely with the assistance of Chat GPT. with prompts from a human source. The original prompt was: “Write a story about an American town that is hopelessly divided by partisan politics and agrees to use an AI machine as the mayor of the town. Please enjoy this AI-generated tail of Harmonyville. In the quaint town of Harmonyville, nestled in the heart of rural America, political divisions had reached an all-time high. The once close-knit community found itself torn apart by conflicting ideologies, making it nearly impossible for any human mayor to bridge the ...