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Object of Intrigue: The Turk, a Mechanical Chess Player that Unsettled the World
Warnings over the perils of artificial intelligence arms races have made headlines of late, but debates over the possibilities of AI have been raging since the '70s. The 1770s.
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I always thought that russians were the best chess players this is a discovery watching a mechanical older player.