It has been said that God created man in His image. Whether this statement is true or not had no bearing on humanity's desire to do what God supposedly did and create a being in His likeness. Ancient Jewish legends tell stories of constructs, known as golems, that were made of tilled earth or mud and brought to life with magic, and obeyed any command to the letter (Kopelman Foundation). As humanity abandoned the arcane and began to embrace science, the focus of such stories also changed. However, the concept remained remarkably similar. A woman named Mary Shelley wrote an almost universally famous novel titled . In it, he tells the story of a young man named Doctor Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with bringing the dead back to life, creates a creature cobbled together from human remains. He was, in essence, a golem made of flesh and animated through science and electricity. With the passage of time and science, humanity's thoughts have shifted even further from the mystical and monstrous to the technological. Robots emerged from humanity's imagination, machines made of metal and synthetic materials built to resemble humans and programmed to act and react, think and learn on their own, just as humans do. Half of this imagination is already scientific fact. Automated robots fill American factories, and one humanoid robot, Honda's ASIMO, is already capable of running, jumping, and otherwise navigating a normal human environment (American Honda Motor Co.). However, one aspect of humanity's dream remains in the imagination: artificial intelligence. However, thanks to the work of Subrata Ghosh and his colleagues, humanity may be just steps away from realizing its desire to create a thinking, evolving robot in... middle of paper......information . vol. 5.2014.PDF. 24 March 2014. .Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831.Skillings, Jonathan. Newsmaker: Making machines think like us. July 3, 2006. March 18, 2014. .Tank, David W. and John J. Hopfield. “Collective computation in neuron-like circuits.” American scientist. 1987.PDF. March 24, 2014. Turing, Alan. "Intelligent machines". and The Turing Digital Archive. Images of the typed document. 1 April 2014. .—. "Intelligent machines, a heretical theory." and The Turing Digital Archive. Images of the typed document. March 17 2014. .