Vaucanson's Duck (M&D) again, again

[Monte Davis]

https://www.inverse.com/article/10494-how-automatons-helped-predict-the-future-of-robotics

Short and superficial, but closes with the valuable ironic point that
Charles Babbage was inspired by an 1819 exhibition of the chess-playing
Mechanical Turk. The MT was bogus (a human player hidden inside), but the
idea of its "programming" would help stimulate Babbage, Lovelace et al to
create actual programming.
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