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    1. Kyle McDonald‏ @kcimc 10 May 2018

      reading the wikipedia page for speech synthesis i fell into a rabbit hole following the history of "brazen heads": legendary bronze objects with supernatural foresight. i noticed a number of connections to contemporary issues in AI.pic.twitter.com/ERj6hQqeAR

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    2. Kyle McDonald‏ @kcimc 10 May 2018

      while golems and moving sculptures are typically mobile but speechless, brazen heads speak but are immobile. they don't follow the familiar plot of abusing their strength to run amok or destroy their creator.

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    3. Kyle McDonald‏ @kcimc 10 May 2018

      one of the best known brazen heads was crafted by roger bacon in the 1200s, popularized in the 1500s. bacon wanted to protect england by surrounding it in a brass wall, and hoped to get advice from the head. http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=baldwin&book=thirty&story=bacon …pic.twitter.com/87vD085Aoe

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    4. Kyle McDonald‏ @kcimc 10 May 2018

      an nsa memo from 1964 references this story while discussing the significance of automating intelligence, humorously describing bacon's work as "a defense project" https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/tech-journals/assets/files/time-is.pdf …pic.twitter.com/wsGDtmo3aY

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    5. Kyle McDonald‏ @kcimc 10 May 2018

      this obsession with brass might have been connected to the use of brass for astronomical clockwork: timekeeping devices that, like bacon's brazen head, took years to assemble and foretold the future. https://books.google.com/books?id=6fk6od4AJrYC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&source=bl&ots=ptoW5uCeiI&sig=E7pEqQQGcnI0dTxzu6yiUw7I_zI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi89oOAh_zaAhXJ34MKHbvVAUsQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/6EkQYk4UlA

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    6. Kyle McDonald‏ @kcimc 10 May 2018

      at the time, this kind of science was treated with suspicion: part of the story is that bacon had to make a deal with a demon to get the brazen head working properly. (anyone who has trained a neural net can relate to this)

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    7. Kyle McDonald‏ @kcimc 10 May 2018

      there are similarities to the french pope sylvester ii (late 900s) who constructed a "yes/no" brazen head. sylvester ii made a pact with a demon, and practiced science from a "magic-book" he stole from an arab philosopher https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Devil_stories_-_an_anthology.djvu/338 …pic.twitter.com/Go1Iku9uUY

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      François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 10 May 2018
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      Ok Magic Head,

      2:13 PM - 10 May 2018
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