This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win
Cars That Think
JUNE 29, 2023
Building a machine that thinks The first version of the chess automaton, from 1912, featured a vertical chessboard and a mechanical arm to move the pieces. The Spanish engineer was interested in building a machine that “thinks”—or at least makes choices from a relatively complex set of relational possibilities.
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