The Turk: The 1770 Chess-Playing Machine Hoax
Chapter 1

The mechanical dreamers

Chapter 2

Inside the digital brain

Chapter 3

Global brains, diverse solutions

Chapter 4

The limits of the machine

YOUR GOAL

Master of The rise of the thinking machine

Ch 1 · The mechanical dreamers
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007skaty The summer workshop that founded the field of artificial intelligence

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007skaty Shakey the Robot

Wobble through the open door (shake it, shake it!) / Planning paths across the floor (on my own, yeah!)

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We try to replicate ourselves before we fully understand how we work.

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007skaty Ada Lovelace pioneered the concept of poetic science.

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Ada Lovelace's poetic science

007skaty Analyzing Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, Ada Lovelace predicted that machines manipulating symbols could compose music and create art.

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Alan Turing's imitation game

007skaty The Imitation Game evaluates if a computer can mimic human conversational behavior.

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Sunny Thinking Pal
BETA

007skaty Train your sunny thinking pal with data to discover how AI machines solve problems.

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Fun Fact

Mechanical brains: In 1770, an inventor built 'The Turk,' a chess-playing machine that fooled the world, though a human chess master was actually hidden inside it.

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Glossary
speech synthesis (noun)
The artificial production of human speech by a computer or other machine. In 1779, Wolfgang von Kempelen pioneered this field using a mechanical system of bellows and reeds.

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Gossip

Would you play chess against a robot?

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Quiz

Which mechanical machine, designed by Charles Babbage, did Ada Lovelace write her historic algorithm for?

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Gossip

Who is the ultimate AI pioneer?

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Quiz

In what year did Ada Lovelace publish her notes containing the first computer algorithm?

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Quiz

What was the original name Alan Turing gave to his test for machine intelligence in 1950?

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In which academic journal did Alan Turing publish his seminal 1950 paper introducing his famous test?

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Which American college hosted the famous 1956 summer workshop where the term 'Artificial Intelligence' was coined?

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Which computer scientist is credited with coining the term 'Artificial Intelligence' for the 1956 Dartmouth workshop proposal?

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Why did developers name the historic 1960s robot 'Shakey'?

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Where was Shakey, the world's first general-purpose mobile robot, developed between 1966 and 1972?

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