The origin of the Mechanical Turk and Stalin’s “deepfakes” roya.pakzad@gmail.com November 21, 2018 September 18, 2019 Comments Off on The origin of the Mechanical Turk and Stalin’s “deepfakes” From the 13th edition of my newsletter, Humane AI The origin of the Mechanical Turk and Stalin’s “deepfakes”From the 13th edition of my newsletter, Humane AI ✏ The Mechanical Turk: “Artificial Artifical Intelligence” In the late 18th century, a Hungarian inventor presented a new invention to the Empress of Austria. It was an “intelligent” machine that came to be known as the Mechanical Turk, capable of playing chess at a high level.