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- Bloodletting was thought to have beneficial value in healing various ailments. Hip-
pocrates On the Nature of Man 11; Aristotle History of Animals 512b 12– 26. Blood-
letting is depicted on the Peytal Aryballos, 480 BC, Louvre. Buxton 2013, 93. The
location of Talos’s weak point, the ankle, conforms to the trope of vulnerability
associated with feet, e.g., Achilles’s heel and Oedipus’s lame foot. - Plutarch Moralia 5.7.680C– 83B; Dickie 1990 and 1991; Apollonius (Hunter trans.)
2015, 6, 302. On bronze and evil eye, Weinryb 2016, 131– 33. Examples of realistic
painted and inlaid bronze statues, Brinkmann and Wünsche 2007. - Truitt 2015a and b. Kang 2011, 22– 25, 65– 66. Buxton 2013, 74. Gray 2015. “In-
betweenness” of Pandora, chapter 8 and Francis 2009, 14– 15. In a sense, Talos could
be said to have “narrow” or Type I reactive AI (see glossary). On the “Uncanny
Valley” effect of realistic artificial life, see chapter 5; and Lin, Abney, and Bekey
2014, 25– 26. - Newman 2014. The myth of Talos as an invincible ancient security system underlies
the name of the “world’s largest hub of security intelligence” working “tirelessly
to identify and counter cyber- crime attacks,” called Talos, maintained by Cisco
Systems, since 2008. http:// www .talosintelligence .com /about/. - Kang 2011, 65. On modern concerns about the ethics of replacing human judges
with AI, see Bhorat 2017. Lin 2015; Lin, Abney, and Bekey 2014, 53, 60, and chap-
ters 4 and 5. Thanks to Norton Wise for valuable suggestions on these questions.
Spenser’s Iron Knight, Talus, was named for the mythic Talos but may have been
modeled in part on Leonardo da Vinci’s robotic knight in armor (ca. 1495) clad in
heavy medieval armor and powered by pulleys, cranks, gears, and levers. - See chapter 9 for ancient Persian “batteries.” Ambrosino 2017. Shtulman 2017, 53–56.
- Tenn 1958. Talos served as “a primitive home alarm system,” Mendelsohn 2015.
- Garten and Dean 1982, 118. Talos missiles were decommissioned in 1980. Talos in
the Harryhausen film of 1963 also combined preprogrammed “brawn” with “brains.”
Winkler 2007, 462–63. - History of efforts to create military robotics, Jacobsen 2015 and Tyagi 2018. Nissen-
baum 2014. SOCOM TALOS project renewed its official call for proposals in De-
cember 2017–18.
CHAPTER 2. MEDEA’S CAULDRON OF REJUVENATION- Ovid Metamorphoses 7.159– 293.
- Nostoi frag. 7, and Medea’s plot against Pelias in the lost play by Sophocles, Rhi-
zotomoi, “Root- Cutters,” see Gantz 1993, 1:191, 367; some accounts indicate that
she placed Aeson in the boiling kettle. Godwin 1876, 41. - Medea’s rejuvenation plan in the Aeschylus play, according to scholia on Euripides
Medea, see Denys Page, ed., Euripides, Medea (Oxford, 1938). Diodorus Siculus 4.78
on the revivifying effects of the steam bath invented by Daedalus. New technologies
often misconstrued, Hawes 2014, 59– 60; on Palaephatus and his date, see 37– 91
and 227– 38. Aristotle on metabolism, aging, and life spans, Leroi 2014, 260– 65.