Category: Ridiculous History

The Mechanical Turk: The 18th-Century Hoax That Foreshadowed AI’s Future

April 17, 2025

Autonomous Robots, Blog, History of AI, Ridiculous History, Throwback Thursday

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.