S1E1: The Box That A.I. Lives In

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In the 18th century, a device called the Mechanical Turk convinced Europeans that a robot could play winning chess. But there was a trick. It’s a trick that companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook still pull on us today. Guests include: Jaron Lanier, futurist. Luis von Ahn, founder of CAPTCHA and Duolingo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	exclusively on Disney Plus.
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0:11.4	Upon my signal, unleash hell.
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0:35.0	So, Tom, where does it all begin?
0:38.1	Okay, it's 1783 and Paris is gripped by the prospect of a chess match.
0:44.8	And one of the contestants in this chess match is Francois André Philidor, who is considered the greatest chess player, certainly in Paris, probably in Europe, and probably in the whole world.
0:56.3	And his party piece is playing against two opponents at the same time while blindfolded.
1:01.2	So he has to remember where everything is on both chess boards.
1:03.8	And there's even a chess move named after him called a Philidor Sacrifice.
1:07.8	So essentially, he's Mr. Chess.
1:10.3	And the reason everyone's so excited in this particular summer
1:13.2	is that he's about to go head to head
1:15.7	with the other big sensation in the chess world at the time.
1:19.7	But his opponent isn't a man, and it's not a woman either.
1:23.1	It's a machine.
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