This Unbeatable Chess Automaton Sparked the AI Debate 254 years ago | The Mechanical Turk | 1.1

This video dances around it - but the Turk was simply a fraud. Mechanically, it was no more complicated than any other machine of the era. It in no way even qualifies as an automaton, in that all of its movements were controlled by a human concealed in the cabinet underneath. A clock from that time is more of an automaton than was the chess player. Please read Edgar Allen Poe's essay "Maelsel's Chess Player".