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Fast forward to 200 BCE, and we get the Antikythera Mechanism—a hand-cranked device that could predict astronomical positions and eclipses. Some call it the first known analog computer.
By 800 CE, Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi introduced the concept of algorithms—the very thing that powers today’s AI.
By 1000 CE, navigation and computation tools like the astrolabe helped sailors chart the seas, using mathematics and observation—more proof that machines were already expanding human intelligence.