Before there was artificial intelligence, there was Heron. In the 1st century AD, Heron of Alexandria created automatic machines that seemed alive. He is considered the first engineer of the “automaton”.• If you lit a fire, the doors of the temple would open. • If a weight fell, a theatrical scene would start. He built: • Automatic theaters • Automatic temples • The aeolosphera (first steam engine) • The first vending machine (coin-holy water). His goal: to trick the mind into thinking that there was intelligence behind the mechanism. He programmed and encoded behaviors not with Software, not with Python, with matter instead of code. With pulleys, gears, weights and water, he built systems that reacted to stimuli. Just as Heron encoded external behavior, Em.A.I.™ helps you decode your internal mechanics: input → linguistic algorithm → output (or in other words: word → intention → reaction). Each of his automata was a ritual circuit: an input (e.g. weight, fire, water flow) led to a predetermined, intelligence-like behavior.