Pygmalion was a sculptor in the poem 'Metamorphoses' by the Roman poet Ovid. Pygmalion fell in love with a statue he had carved and asked Aphrodite to bring the statue to life. However, once a flesh and blood women. The story is often used as a parallel for makers of artificial intelligence and robots, esepcially those espousing {[strong AI}}.
Used in Chap. 1: page 3
Links:
perseus.tufts.edu: Metamorphoses – Pygmalion and the statue