The Mechanical Turk quickly became a symbol of technological innovation and sparked the same heated debates we’re having right now about the nature of artificial intelligence, the limits of human ingenuity, and the possibility of constructing a machine capable of replicating human thought. https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/05/25/how-a-mechanical-chess-playing-turk-gave-birth-to-the-ai-debate-250-years-ago/