Ancient Intelligence
Oracles: The Original AI
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Elias and Clara on the oracles of the ancient world: the Pythia in the unseen adyton at Delphi, the four thousand lead tablets folded shut at Dodona, Alexander crossing the desert to Siwa in three hundred and thirty one before the common era, Croesus and his blind test of the oracles, the wooden walls debate that saved Athens at Salamis, the de Boer and Hale ethylene claim and its critics,…