Throughout the ages the idea of talking images has been a subject of legends, fables, some might say historic reality. It all seems to have started with wicked magic practices in which the wicked have kept heads of the dead and used black magic to make them answer questions, perhaps with yes/no answers of perhaps letting their own minds invent the answers and attribute them to the heads or skulls. This practice is mentioned in the apocryphal book of Jasher as an example of Canaanite wickedness, but through history it was often recorded that pagans practiced this. A variation of this theme is ascribed to a Middle Ages pope, Pope Sylvester II, who is said to have used a bronze statue head with the same effect, where he was able to get it to give yes or no answers to any question he asked it. Magician Roger Bacon is said to have had a similar device, back in the Middle Ages. In Revelation we have the foretelling of an empire being given global dominance by its use of an image which can speak. It speaks and what it says will cause the world to serve the empire and its blasphemous ruler called the Beast. Of course, we are no longer in the realm of fables and legends when we see how AI can make this a reality right now, and over a few more decades, could develop into a world empire based on what it says to everyone. I imagine they might call the empire based on it, a smart empire, but terminology and catch phrase jargon changes over the decades, so look out for a new catchy term to make it sound like something we should welcome.
