The same could be said for our own age, which surely history will characterize as the beginning of the Age of Artificial Intelligence, or AI. Just like space travel, AI has certainly been a part of our imagination for a long time. In our literature and mythology, examples of AI-like creatures appear as automatons or machines. In ancient Greek mythology there was Talos, the giant bronze protector of the island of Crete. There are many other examples, such as the Golem of Jewish folklore and False Marie from the 1925 novel, Metropolis by Thea von Harbou, to name but a few.