Madeleine LeBrun
The Mechanical Turk
Illustration
2022
Von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk (1770) sparked early discussion of artificial intelligence by appearing to play games of chess.
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Madeleine LeBrun
Illustration
“"Automatic Ancestors" depicts historical automata (lifelike machines) juxtaposed with elements of the modern technologies they anticipate. In this way, various aspects of “modern” technology are...” [More]