

Yes. Written in 1965. But the Orange Catholic Bible says “Though shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.” Which the Reverend Mother informs Paul is inaccurate.
If Frank Herbert actually could see the future, then he saw the GenAI companies and their marketing. The AI of today are sold “like they think” but in fact counterfeit it entirely. It’s just a large matrix function applied to encoded words.



Its the same inventor as this machine, referred to as the Hero of Alexandria. Largely they were complex theater puppets.
Coincidentally I ran into it reading up on automata in mythology today.
I’ll add my favorite bit of ancient technology here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism