Explore the Mechanical Turk automation project, a modern twist on the storied history of chess automaton, Babbage, and the Turk. In 1783, an autonomous machine beat Benjamin Franklin in a game of ...
A master magic builder from California has recreated an 18th Century automaton that took Europe and America by storm. For more than 80 years, Wolfgang von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk amazed people on ...
Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Warnings over the perils of artificial intelligence arms races have made ...
An 18th Century automaton that could beat human chess opponents seemingly marked the arrival of artificial intelligence. But what turned out to be an elaborate hoax had its own sense of genius, says ...
A mechanical marvel may have helped set Edgar Allan Poe on his life’s creative path. At the beginning of the 1770s, Wolfgang von Kempelen, a European inventor, premiered his newest creation: a robotic ...
Chess is famous as perhaps the most respected board game ever played, and we often uses chess as a way to metaphorically teach lessons about the world. But as it turns out, chess is also pretty good ...
Amazon’s grocery stores ditched their “Just Walk Out” technology on Tuesday, though it turned out the automated checkout system included 1,000 reviewers in India. However, this is hardly the only ...
A master magic builder from California has recreated an 18th Century automaton that took Europe and America by storm. For more than 80 years, Wolfgang von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk amazed people on ...
Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.
Hide inaccessible results
Feedback