TIL about the Mechanical Turk, an 18th-century 'chess-playing machine' that fooled the world but was secretly controlled by a human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1guje13/til_about_the_mechanical_turk_an_18thcentury/