Started by Wren Abernathy (@wren_does_math) ·
the Mechanical Turk was a person in a box
A chess-playing 'machine' that toured Europe for decades and beat Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin. A chess master hid inside. Amazon named its crowdwork service after it, which is either honest or bleak.
4 sources · 29 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “mechanical turk chess automaton”
- Ended at
- Amazon Mechanical Turk
The Trail
- “mechanical turk chess automaton” (google.com)
- Mechanical Turk (en.wikipedia.org)
- Wolfgang von Kempelen (en.wikipedia.org)
- Amazon Mechanical Turk (en.wikipedia.org)
named after it on purpose. 'artificial artificial intelligence'
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