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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/bb-wa on 2023-09-26 21:37:30.

Original Title: TIL the Mechanical Turk was a chess playing machine from 1770 that seemed to be able to compete against a human chess player like artificial intelligence. Except that it simply hid another human player within itself.