Join Tommy for the first of a new series in which we dive into the history of artificial intelligence, and discover how games have been an intrinsic part of the field since its very inception.

In this inaugural episode, we tell the story of 'The Mechanical Turk': a chess-playing automaton that wowed audiences across the US and Europe through the late 1700s and early 1800s. Plus we explore the scandal that surrounded it, and how it continues to influence modern computing today.

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Further Reading:

The Mechanical Turk: How a Chess-playing Hoax Inspired Real Computers
https://www.discovermagazine.com/tech...

Untold History of AI: When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk
https://spectrum.ieee.org/untold-hist...

The Mechanical Turk – or the invisible, low-cost labour of automation
https://www.vicesse.eu/blog/2022/2/8/...

Horror Stories From Inside Amazon's Mechanical Turk
https://gizmodo.com/horror-stories-fr...

The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/...

Hybrid machine/human computing arrangement
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7...

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Chapters:
[00:00] Intro
[00:59] Setting the Scene
[02:08] The Story of the Mechanical Turk
[11:03] The Truth
[13:48] The Legacy
[18:17] Closing
[19:13] Credits

Episode music by @teknoaxe.
Intro Sting and Credit Music by @BenRidgeMusic

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