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The Mechanical Turk Hoax

    Invented in 1770 and widely exhibited throughout the 19th century, this fake chess-playing automaton defeated world leaders like Napoleon. Though operated by a hidden human master, it sparked intense global public debates about whether machines could possess genuine strategic intellect.

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