Reading Time: 10 minutes – The Mechanical Turk, an 18th-century automaton chess player, sparked debates about intelligence and illusion, paralleling today’s AI technologies like Amazon’s MTurk, highlighting the ongoing relationship between human creativity and machine performance in defining intelligence.
Reading Time: 8 minutes – In the late 1940s, W. Grey Walter developed Elmer and Elsie, pioneering robots that emulated biological behaviors, influencing robotics, AI, and our understanding of neural processes and feedback mechanisms.