How an Unstoppable 200-Year-Old Robot Fooled the World

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[@duchi882]

*Chess back then:* This machine is too smart, a human mind must be controlling it *Chess now:* This human is too smart, he must be using a Chess Engine

[@mnomadvfx]

That pretty much describes the future path of AI - integrating it into humans as Intelligence Amplification.

[@funnyguy101ize]

Technology is crazy

[@club6525]

@@zane13232 Encouraging people to visit your channel is considered self-promo.

[@lmaobox4068]

"Hax n00b lol needs chess b0t 2 win gg no re" - Timmy aged 9 vs world chess champion

[@sombertownds149]

.... i got a online chess game ad.....

[@Bluecheese2142]

Edgar Allan Poe really was like "I've never seen you and the Turk in the same place at the same time" and the guy just starts sweating.

[@mezzops1716]

Among us games in a nutshell

[@YahNation]

I see you are an unus

[@Bluecheese2142]

@@YahNation And I see you are an Annus.

[@Cesar.Flowers]

Yes

[@YahNation]

Hey guys I got rid of the spiral cuz they bouta delete the channel and I got my own grind going on! please help a fellow iplier out and check out my music! If you decide you like it consider subscribing! thankyou!

[@sumvs5992]

Imagine making a wrong move and then you hear a mumbled "Wow what an idiot!"

[@Mustis91]

Napoleon sneezes "oh dear..bless you..i..i mean check!"

[@kristofladanyi3671]

"THERE IS A HALFLING INSIDE!" - average d&d player

[@Nanocon1]

I dont care if it was a lie, the engineering that must have gone into it to allow the Turk to shadow the person controlling it and move the pieces with precision across the board must have been incredible.

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

Yes as well as the way it was designed to specifically fool people that would inspect it there was a lot of thinking involved when this thing was made

[@campickett4293]

Not to mention it literally inspired the creator of the first computer this is lowkey one of the most important things in human history

[@isaacdayton4962]

I do think it would have been possible to create a automated chess machine that almost always won even back then. Off course it would be absolutely huge and entirely analog. Although I doubt anyone would have had the time, resources and knowledge needed to create something like this.

[@tokugeeky2931]

Agreed.

[@logothaironsides2942]

That's what I think too. The player must have been fantastic and terrified and that isn't a good combination for winning. Imagine if someone like Napoleon had decided to shove a sword through the bottom or some such thing.

[@Y4manata]

Man this story has the biggest character crossover I've ever seen

[@juliuscaesar1062]

I was thinking the same thing, first time so many giants experienced the same thing

[@victor_silva6142]

Aye.

[@monke6912]

And biggest simp of the centuryies

[@oumardiop1]

beethoven, edgar allen poe, been franklin, napolean bonnaparte, another guy named ludwig, this is bigger than endgame

[@appletunisheccincute6253]

Is... is this a crossover episode?

[@cheez-itman2784]

Can you imagine how terrifying it would be to be the guy playing inside the machine and hearing NAPOLeON BONAPARTE challenge you?

[@peris_arts_film9699]

sweats tactically

[@SArtisto1]

And then have the guts to smack his pieces off the chest board lmao

[@owogamingchannel850]

Yes nepolian bonaparte

[@Burn_Angel]

@@owogamingchannel850 Emperor of Fronze.

[@Lenn869]

@@owogamingchannel850 just like Egdar Alan Poe

[@SR-hj6sh]

Because his voice is soothing, I decided to use Thoughty2's video to fall asleep. But the kind of characters that appeared in this video made me doubt whether I was trying to fall asleep or was already asleep

[@proto-geek248]

I use MST3K 😴

[@iggy3579]

i wake up knowing so much more lmao!

[@jackdurden466]

That’s pretty damn cool! So you have discovered how to learn while you sleep, kinda like Dr Strange did.

[@bt1089]

Dude same

[@kyamaldinihill]

The amount of historical figure name dropping in this entire story is so amazing to me hahaha

[@lexigrimhaive]

Right?! Maria Theresa of Austria, Paul of Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte, Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe…!!

[@kyamaldinihill]

@@lexigrimhaive It's so wild!

[@patrickbateman1067]

This just shows that almost all great people if the past were fans of chess.

[@elliottcarson1248]

Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin both died fully believing in A.I. Think about that for a moment.

[@donkeyslayer4661]

Why?

[@elliottcarson1248]

@Daniel McCoy it's a rhetorical statement 😂

[@albertcoorey5346]

Elliott Carson I think it was a joke

[@kevinloving3141]

What if research into robotics had started as early as the middle of the 18th century, by the 19th century chattle slavery could have been abolished and thus no American civil war.

[@proman4592]

@Daniel McCoy robot

[@MiracleSword]

I’ve always found this hoax delightful just for how well it was pulled off, how long it lasted, and how many notable historical figures were involved.

[@hrishiraj2899]

The fact that it inspired the invention of the very device we are using right now is so astounding

[@Dreadjaws]

What an utterly fascinating story. It's the sort of thing you'd see in a Hollywood adaptation and complain about all the liberties taken. _"Come on, Bonaparte, Franklin AND Poe? Get out of here with your fanfiction!"_ Reality can most definitely be stranger than fiction.

[@seandavidslipp1821]

Damn Jaws over there has got it a true kind Wise soul

[@TedwardsTube]

I immediately thought, there must have been several film adaptations of this story, historical dramas, or something. But I can’t find any. I’m confused. This really could be made into a fascinating movie. I thought the same thing when I saw a KZbin documentary about the serial killer H.H.Holmes - Tim Burton / Johnny Depp haven’t done this yet?!?

[@Stardust_7273]

It may have been an illusion that the Mechanical Turk possessed any true AI, but the engineering required to build such an automaton is truly impressive.

[@Fadastalk]

Ok sure it was a hoax, but even the mechanics of moving the pieces from inside the box is still pretty smart for 1770.

[@fredjaneson1670]

I agree

[@MartinFinnerup]

Agreed.

[@TobyIKanoby]

Not really. The pantograph was invented long before this. Magic tricks were nothing new either.

[@TobyIKanoby]

@Bunny Yeah people tend to underestimate our ancestors' capabilities and ingenuity, the whole "ancient aliens" thing was based on that tendency (apart from a huge lack of scientific knowledge of course).

[@roguetune03]

I was thinking the same thing! When the explanation of how the chess player inside both saw the moves made on the exterior board.. and then could move his own pieces at will from within the cabinet I was grinding trying to figure out how a series of magnets could be assembled to make it work, and work so reliably. Incredible all by itself!

[@noflare1714]

Gideon Mwaura is such a doubting Thomas🤦

[@shrigmian]

That has 250 years of history, most likely you only have 15

[@TheGauges420]

@@shrigmian well even over the average of 75 we still wont be even 1/4 as interesting. Although I'm already at 30 and feel the same way so.

[@lucasbiermann257]

@@TheGauges420 being interesting has nothing to do with how long you live unless that is the interesting part. it has to do with what you do. most people have an uninteresting life with few good moments but alas none are interesting enough to be recorded in history. that "box" fooled a lot of important people for decades as being one of a kind and in the end it truly became one.

[@zk0rned]

@@lucasbiermann257 living for centuries definitely helps my guy

[@glidershower]

Anything capable of trolling Napoleon Bonaparte _and have him be happily amused about it_ surely has a history more compelling than 98% of us in YT. I don't feel inadequate. The odds were stacked against me from the start, lolz.

[@kingscrusher]

Great video - got a lot more insights about this story that i did not know before including the link with Sherlock Holmes. Thanks very much. Cheers, K

[@thebostonterrierdude1585]

Yooo verified with 7 likes

[@thebostonterrierdude1585]

Also you are the reason my brother keeps beating at chess

[@JoBot__]

Honestly, I can't wait to be verified. It's gonna be hard, but once I make enough content and become popular enough, It's probably gonna happen.

[@halweilbrenner9926]

This is unbelievable

[@lavenderflowersfall280]

Yes

[@yoskull9295]

Just in case u are wondering, the robot in the thumbnail is from a film called Hugo, it’s about this kid who builds a robot in a train station.

[@braelinmichelus]

Which was based on the original book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick. The book is _far, far_ better the movie, you really should read it.

[@eatonkuntz]

@@braelinmichelus which in turn, is oddly similar to Alita Battle Angel

[@kietro8319]

@@eatonkuntz Which in turn was based on Battle Angel Alita (a.k.a., Gunnm)

[@Bambisgf77]

Thank you!! 🎉

[@boomerix]

IBM Computer: nervously makes a random move. Kasparov: "This utter brilliance could have never been done by a mere machine!"

[@TheChadPad]

It's amazing. Dumb fucking luck

[@pinochet3317]

“How an unstoppable 200 year old robot fooled the world” *You mean Queen Elizabeth II?*

[@cakersthecake5337]

Lmao

[@suhailab3634]

Lmao

[@reubenshiflet1952]

Lmao

[@CloudsAndDays]

Lmao

[@azurisage]

Lmao

[@themagicalgamer6522]

17:35 "With the automaton destroyed, Mitchell's son: Silas-" KZbin automated captions: *Silly ass*

[@sammycinnamon7300]

That's what he called him. And he called Edgar Allen poe, egdar

[@fredrikdanielsson3605]

I loled

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Poe: There's a man inside the box! Man inside the box: And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that meddling author! Scooby Doo: Reckrate!

[@TheDiego908]

"He claims to have been able to hear the automaton's last desperate words above the roaring flames: 'gg'."

[@dshaprin]

EZ

[@theuserjoan]

“What are you going to do? Burn me?”

[@deanmalto1386]

Get Rekt

[@cycosist5156]

"I'll always come back"

[@akanehone1434]

gg ez

[@Lava91point0]

“And like many depressed men, he turned to drink. He died from alcohol poisoning during the voyage” This man couldn’t even wait to get home, he must have been drinking by the literal bucket load

[@_RainbowAngela_]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but at that time most people had to drink alchohol (mostly beer) on ships because it was much cleaner than the little "fresh" water they had on board.

[@lesvernornvienas8232]

@@_RainbowAngela_ wasn’t just ships just pretty much in general it was much safer to drink beer

[@unsainted2240]

@Forever Changed Alcohol withdrawal is the worst experience i have ever had in my life. The symptoms literally feel like you're dying, no exaggeration. Landed me in the hospital once, then I worked out the 2nd one on my own

[@unsainted2240]

@Forever Changed Same situation, im getting out of the habit slowly, I am still physically and mentally strong but its overtaking my ability to do my duties sober and efficiently.

[@anaperez5442]

I was told by a pharmacist who worked at the VA for several years (before going to the private sector) that standard treatment for alcoholics was to slowly diminish the amount of liquor they would consume. Because if the patient was cut off completely (going cold turkey) the strain on the patient's organism would be so great it would kill them.

[@zeeshanhazari]

This Story Deserves a Movie for *Real*

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

The Turk: Behold! I was superior to any human. Arnold: You won't be back.

[@proto-geek248]

Agreed. Thought the same.

[@alpharius7712]

I didnt expect they were doing it for money LMAO, if some dude came up to me and was like "Wanna prank Napoleon?" Id say "Do I?!?! IS THE SKY BLUE MY SIR???"

[@HSpartaL]

Even without the man inside, the turk would still beat me at chess

[@ethantoft4453]

How was this 2 hours ago for me it says the vid was released 14mins ago

[@tortistortis]

Ethan Toft he joined the channel and one of the perks is early access to videos

[@shivshetty3045]

@@tortistortis it cld also just be a glitch. Ive seen a comment say 2 days old and the vid said 10 mins ago

[@lucasbiermann257]

to be honest most humans would lose at chess if they had a man inside them.

[@asenelezulu7602]

Same😂

[@edgycommunist4213]

I forget about Thoughty2 for a couple years and he's stalin when I come back lol

[@JoshLathamTutorials]

Username checks out.

[@Haxington]

Small world, huh?

[@mathieuleader8601]

Joe Steele

[@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence]

Bill Stalin the working class chap from Birmingham? Think you got commies on the brain.

[@Jaguarstudios8379]

Same

[@swiftfox3461]

This is one of the best and most comprehensive docs on the Mechanical Turk I've ever seen. Thanks, you did it really well.

[@treehouseoflibertymedia9732]

The gift of hindsight being what it is, I figured a human was involved somehow from the start, but what a fascinating story, presented flawlessly by you as always. Keep up the great work! You have an uncanny ability to entertain AND inform!!

[@ethanwinters9660]

It's still extremely impressive that the turk would've had enough dexterity for the hidden player to accurately select and move pieces.

[@justingrey6008]

Using a pantograph, assuming all the joints were tight, the moves of turk would be identical to his own. I am more interested in how it tracked moves. Magnets only go so far and could not track lifted parts

[@satibel]

@@justingrey6008 you know which piece was moved and to where it was moved, so you can infer the move. (for example you see A2 to A3, you know what to move.)

[@justingrey6008]

@@satibel pick up a rook, you have 4 points that piece could land.

[@satibel]

@@justingrey6008 (edit)tl;dr: as long as you know the full state of the board before, if you know from where to where a move is made, you know the full state of the board after. you'd know exactly where it lands, as you can't pick up multiple pieces at the same time. I'd imagine, you see where all the pieces are, and given that you know where they started, you can always know where all the pieces are as the game progresses even if you don't see which pieces are where, just where are all the pieces. and you can easily replicate the board, as you see a piece go out, you pick it up, and then when you see it reappear, you put it where it reappeared.

[@justingrey6008]

@@satibel that would imply some sort of visual system on the board. Which could be done with mirrors but mirrors work both ways. How would you track pieces so they could be blindly moves and tracked remotely? And to do it before modern (any) electronics.

[@Pencil0fDoom]

“His son, Silly-ass...” I’m dead.

[@staretimecomics]

I'm so glad someone else noticed! Cheers!

[@tongs1073]

timestamp pleaseee

[@staretimecomics]

@@tongs1073 17:36 Enjoy

[@ivdarox]

@Graham Murphy that video is cheap sensationalism lol

[@ivdarox]

@Graham Murphy this video says something at least. The other one is the whole time hinting a reveal of the way the turk worked, to then just take us to the house of an old dude that is supposedly an eminence in illusions and that knows how it functioned. Just to have him tell us he won't reveal shit. LOL. Not even conjectures, anything. At least this one contains the version of someone related to an owner.

[@isaiahoconnor8236]

Thank you for this. I knew of this decades ago, but only in passing a single paragraph under a photo, I love the detail !

[@bubbafug00gle51]

I knew almost everything in this video and still enjoyed watching... that's the power of great storytelling.

[@yungshabby1547]

This robot beat Ben Franklin & Napoleon, inspired computers & Sherlock Holmes

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

All that and the princess STILL turned him down.

[@MrFallen1ne]

Yet this robot wasn't a robot at all, just a ruse.

[@breezywriter6572]

Too bad it wasn’t actually a robot.

[@LoudRevised]

This machine met to many historical figures you’d swear he was in a time travel information.

[@TheSayujya]

Lol

[@readmarx420]

Did you have a stroke whike typing or some ish?

[@Lee-sd1vx]

uhh am I having a stroke

[@Canzary]

This almost made sense I kept feeling like I was getting it then I didn’t

[@LoudRevised]

I’m stupid: “This machine met so many historical figures you’d swear he was in a time travel movie.”

[@reynalindstrom2496]

This is tthe best historical narrative I have found in KZbin,it was amazing!!! Love from Sweden

[@morganholloman6650]

Every time you say "Egdar" instead of Edgar i wanna stuff myself into a wooden chess robot

[@Ilikepats]

Just wait until we find out that Queen Elizabeth is a robot too

[@partytimejew3771]

Ha exactly

[@youtube_user420]

in 2050: The 120 Year Old Robot That Eliminated Europe

[@Marquis-Sade]

Sounds like Dr Who

[@neiana]

The big reveal will be when we find out who ISN'T a robot.

[@darkdefender9919]

Everyone get this man a meme

[@olliefoxx7165]

The ability to see what pieces are on the board and to send that to a hidden board is impressive. Also moving pieces in the visible board via mechanical arm is impressive. They were fooling people through the use of very clever engineering.

[@brianvincent655]

Superbly informative and constructed presentation! Well done.

[@wren_bean]

I remember reading about the Turk and other turn of the century automata featured in theatrical magic acts. I always wondered about it, thanks for sharing this lovely bit of history!

[@morbidmirage726]

I love how even though it was a hoax, it was super significant, even inspiring the first computer.

[@vlaandhael]

I mean Jesus was a bigger hoax and also significant

[@RetroAP]

@@vlaandhael here we go with this shit again

[@oldarthurmorgan6319]

@@vlaandhael ah shit here we go again

[@Coreisus]

@@vlaandhael get educated

[@Tekape]

that's alwayshow it goes, most of things are inspired by fiction logically

[@aaliyahfitzgerald9756]

“All the famous people in history knew each other “

[@letsbehonest4221]

All the famous people of modern time know each other

[@mrniceguy4277]

@@letsbehonest4221 we all know all the famous people. But you are right ^^

[@MyNameJeffOG]

Michael jackson knew Abraham Lincoln

[@omikron6218]

All the famous people if modern time give plane rides to their private islands :^)

[@caseh4235]

@@omikron6218 to one specific private island owned by a man that did not kill himself*

[@LStiglet]

This was quite the intriguing historical story. I enjoyed every single minute of it.

[@peggycarlyle6409]

I think this one of my favorite videos you have made. I’m so glad you referenced it in the Poe video.

[@molybdaen11]

I still find it interesting how a machine of that time could move a arm and a hand acurate enough to move chess pieces.

[@caesertullo1824]

I like the title of "french ambassador" better than "American who liked parties and hookers" even though it's like the same thing.

[@WaterVolt1917]

But he was married though. But your right about the parties only if the're in Boston and involve tea.

[@caesertullo1824]

@@WaterVolt1917 well I mean you know what snuff boxes were right? most of the forefathers were using a bit of nose candy. also come on, those rebellious town hall meetings where they all worked to set up a new never tried before government, and never really tried since, maybe it's cause I'm lame, but I'd fucking call that one hell of a party that I wish I could have partaken in. also highly suggest you google image search snuff boxes, god I hope I'm spelling snuff right. those things are gorgeous. they really had some serious craftsmen back in the day.

[@WaterVolt1917]

@@caesertullo1824 I never said he didn't snort some lines I'm just saying I'd be surprised if he were to ever have some fun with hookers. I mean he was a Christian man after all.

[@WaterVolt1917]

@@dr.floridaman4805 Ever heard of lust?

[@WaterVolt1917]

If that's really the case then why does it allow hookers? Seems a little sus.

[@valmarsiglia]

Glad I discovered your channel. Lots of very interesting stories told in a very engaging manner.

[@Gdub33]

Thats pretty cool. I have never heard of this before. Which is rare. Thank you for the information and great video!

[@Xehemoth]

Fraud or not, this is still insanely impressive.

[@justaduck3615]

The chess player in The Turk who faced Napoleon must have been like: THIS IS MY CHANCE.

[@voltydragon6140]

*maniacle laughter*

[@corporateservants269]

How is that not ok, it's a hypothetical joke about a man from ages ago??? Wtf KZbin

[@sterprism841]

What?

[@promosolo]

Love it! Great content as always - thank you :)

[@GameUnCrafter]

Edgar Allen poe pops up a lot more than I ever thought he would, I always knew of him as just a writer, but he did much more

[@TrainBoy227]

So, you're telling me that Sherlock Holmes was essentially created by some 250 year old simp with a wrench and a chess board?

[@renz1013]

wellcyes but atually no, it was the cause not the reason for its creation, directly anyways what do I know

[@AbdulWahab-cy2wc]

Why sherlock holmes?

[@beanboy5295]

@@AbdulWahab-cy2wc watch the video

[@kermidiu4390]

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

[@ShinSeikiEvan]

Huh. I wonder if the Turk was the inspiration for The Wizard.

[@kermidiu4390]

@@ShinSeikiEvan I wouldn't put it outside the realm of possibility. The answer is probably on the internet somewhere.

[@wedgie502]

This was a wonderful and elegantly told story! Awesome video!

[@thegooddoctor6719]

Brilliant - thanks for the content !!!!

[@tomcatacaphe7814]

This entire concept honestly sounds like an SCP.

[@smolglitch]

Ah yes, artificial intelligence must be anomalous. Kill it with fire!

[@justingrey6008]

@@smolglitch containment first, I am sure it's in some anomalous artifact storage site with a few D class for company.

[@theboxoftexas]

You mean SCP-1875

[@poggersbutthole8444]

Slap some evil sentience on it and it will be a full-fledged SCP

[@theboxoftexas]

SCP-1875 is a Euclid class object and it was was a chess robot that was built by a Russian chess champion in 1875 but parts of the machine were built by by his then missing twin daughters with the chess pieces being made from their bones and when the SCP Foundation took it back to the foundation the machine would have later take over the wireless connection by corrupting files, changing reports, deleting files, and finally sending a disturbing picture of two twin girls with black hallow eyes

[@cretucristian7935]

Very interesting story. One correction: Maria Tereza was, if I remember correctly, empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Croatia, not Bulgaria (which was in that period a province of the Ottoman Empire)

[@Thoughty2]

Yes you're right - Bulgaria was meant to be Croatia here, I'm sorry for the oversight. Thanks for pointing that out :)

[@mrdomino8205]

OMG UR SMART

[@mrdomino8205]

@John Nelson who would bother lol

[@bezvezenetko]

@@Thoughty2 how can you forget Croatia. I LIVE HERE. We are the best!

[@StarsingerOG]

Bulgarians getting triggered rn.

[@JamesStoddah]

That was pretty cool. Love that story (well delivered too!)

[@rickpontificates3406]

Both Dupin and Sherlock Holmes were inspired by a REAL LIFE super sleuth named Eugene Francois Vidocq who lived in the 18th century.

[@kablanq4673]

“There was another common reaction people had to the turk-“ *Air force ad plays*

[@Callsign_Prophet]

Potentially lol

[@HeftyYeti8764]

Same happened to me lol

[@staretimecomics]

KZbin's getting a little too comfortable with double-ads.

[@mitaskeledzija6269]

Omg no 😂

[@adventuresinoberon2350]

I got energizer

[@andor888]

I think the most amazing thing about this is that Kasparov was able to detect unusual behaviour from Deep Blue based on one move in the endgame.

[@StevieTechno]

Love the mispronunciation at 17:40 . You said 'Silly ass' instead of Silas PMSL and so did the Mrs when we heard it, keep it up LOL! Nice 1

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

What a great story! I love it when I discover something I was unaware of, that greatly influenced history. It makes me wonder what object, or event, or person, around me right now will fill that roll and become hugely important, yet remain obscure.🤗🐝❤️

[@Ryan-vl2nn]

Fascinating story. I can’t believe that I never heard of the “Turk” before, but am thankful for knowing it’s story now.

[@dawey8897]

Same, for an automaton who defeated many well known people it doesn't seem well known

[@mazadancoseben4818]

@@dawey8897 , exactly. It's terrifying!

[@JohnJBrowne11209]

Probably showing my age but I read about this 50+ years ago in the How & Why Wonder Book Robots and Electronic Brains

[@XenXenOfficial]

"I like to be called by my goth name... Night Pain." -Edgar Allan Poe

[@Hardrockkiller777]

Oh god

[@rickjames7253]

Is this a direct quote from Poe? If so, from where?

[@Hardrockkiller777]

@@rickjames7253 South Park season 17 episode 4.

[@2fangs298]

@@Hardrockkiller777 lol 🤣 fuckin southpark. I love tht show

[@BatkoBrat]

I love the goth kids episodes xD

[@u12bdragon]

I may be wrong, but the chess playing automaton burning alive may be the inspiration for "The Invention of Hugo Cabret"

[@samueldjsamdominguez1285]

This is one of those episodes that 🤯 thank you so much for this greeting from Puerto Rico

[@briishperson4555]

“Napoleon Bonaparte” Plays British Grenadiers

[@retake6977]

@kakyoin the milf hunter He is you but with more quality

[@dava8058]

Should have the onion song

[@thomasviern806]

I love how the Habsburg's chin has become an inside joke of this channel

[@alaaobaid3363]

A chin like a SLEDGHAMMER !!!

[@mitaskeledzija6269]

I have a chin like that. It sucks...

[@maggiee639]

The Habsburg jaw is well known outside this channel.

[@FeedScrn]

The Dutchess was spared that chin, so she made up for it with a double-chin later on in life... Thoughty2 says.... ha ha ha...

[@buddyclem7328]

@@mitaskeledzija6269 Same, and I have the thumbs too!

[@scottjackson1420]

You got me. I just now bought Stick A Flag In It on Kindle. Your videos are so entertsining; I have high hopes for your book.

[@emilynelson9174]

Either way, an incredible and astounding machine! Thanks for sharing

[@TheNukedNacho]

This robot may be able to beat me in chess. But I’d like to see how it fares against my sledgehammer.

[@agisuru]

Garry Kasparov after losing to Deep Blue This isn't a joke, he started carrying a crowbar to chess matches from then on for explicitly that purpose

[@aongo7615]

@@agisuru We started learning about Garry Kasparov in our degree studies recently. Didn't took long for his name to show up here.

[@Valigarmanda]

It's all fun and games till the automaton catches the sledgehammer with its hand and starts laughing mechanically.

[@TheNukedNacho]

@@Valigarmanda HAAAANS. GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER

[@TailsClock]

"With the automaton destroyed, Mitchel's son, *Silly Ass*..." As someone with a friend called Silas, It's amazing I don't recall anyone ever calling him that in highschool. Also surprising you went and called the guy that here. Did he wrong you?

[@Psichotica7]

Lol, I did a double take when I heard that, then a second later he showed his name. A calculated move, I'm sure...

[@bobchuseby]

He also says "Eggdar Allen Poe."

[@VoxelMusic]

Talk about taking it personally on behalf of someone else.

[@DamianLoved]

Imagine fucking around with one of the world's most ambitious and ruthless conquerors with a fake chess machine.

[@MrCornelius61]

In our language, which is also Kempelen's mother tongue, the inventor's name is correctly Kempelen Farkas. At that time, the names of the people entering the royal court were automatically changed to the German / Austrian name system, hence the "von". That man was a mechanical genius anyway, a separate video could be made of all his machines

[@sideways3667]

Dude, I just want to thank you for being one of the only channels that isn’t politically charged, self centered, a rip off, reactionary, or any of the other bullshit genres that makes up 99% of KZbin. THIS is the type of content I come to KZbin for. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@maxrockatansky3102]

So true, totally agree with you 100%, almost impossible to find interesting content

[@sharonking574]

Try out MrBallen. He does supernatural stuff but majority does real murder mysterys strange occurances and stuff along those lines

[@TheBlueprintsOrlando]

I second that statement.

[@ClingyCrab]

@@sharonking574 Yes.

[@sharonking574]

@@ClingyCrab yes

[@vittxrio5198]

I love how Thoughty2 frequently uploads this year!

[@itsogy]

Thoughty is securing the bag 💰💰

[@reinubekun146]

Ikr

[@dillonisscared306]

I like your howl pfp

[@chilanrm6645]

VITTXRIO same

[@condorianonegdiffsgoku]

@Graham Murphy That's also what Wikipedia says.

[@pieteri.duplessis]

Pleasure to watch, and listen, as always. Thanks.

[@zoltankaldy]

I like your videos, and I was surprised on this one, as I am Hungarian (it is a small country), and did not expect a full video something so much about Hungary. Thank you for this one too!

[@SugaMot]

I love the idea of Poe being so upset at this illusion being sold as a real robot that he publishes a whole paper on it and he finally thinks it's out of his life and later his physician is like "yo edgar, look at what I just bought!"

[@nafiulhabib3081]

When faced of a machine that could think for itself... They called bullshit... Had me laughing 🤣

[@littlefire9743]

Omg me too

[@Risseii]

Me too!

[@Laura.Gregori]

What an awesome video, I enjoyed every bit of it 😄✨

[@michaeladleractor]

I love your work…thanx so much

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

Actually, even though it was a hoax, the Turk must have had some pretty smart mechanics inside of it to convincingly reproduce the movements of the chess master inside, and for him to be able to unerringly follow his opponent's moves. It's always a bit of a give-away, though, when a machine loses its temper. There was another automaton that could write pre-programmed texts - and it wasn't a hoax. It was a mechanical marvel of its time.

[@renz1013]

yeah which impressed me the most

[@swiftfox3461]

IDK. A mechanical counter and an arm-sweep mechanism wouldn't be impossible to implement.

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

@@swiftfox3461 Clearly, it _wasn't_ impossible. Some mechanical inventor did it 200 years ago, at a time when many other fantastic automata were made - able to write a sentence, or the silver swan (Bowes museum) that swallows a fish. But my point was, that many people feel that there was nothing wonderful about it because there was a human chess player inside - so there was nothing clever about it. It was, nonetheless, a feat of design and fine mechanics. Fine mechanics goes back further than that, of course - but that doesn't mean it wasn't an admirable feat of ingenuity. Clocks are fine mechanical contrivances, and they have existed for quite a while, and the Antikythera mechanism has taught us that some technicians had detailed mechanical knowledge, even BC. But gearwheels were cut by hand, we believe, with a chisel. Try that some time. Just make a pair of meshing gearwheels without the aid of anything other than hand tools, and see if you don't think that fine mechanics without the advantage of machine tools is not "pretty smart mechanics".

[@zp944]

@@DownhillAllTheWay heal yourself bro

[@sebastianelytron8450]

Why was the robot arrested? He was charged with battery.

[@thomasglover3834]

🙁

[@luigisupermariobrothers]

this is giving off major dad vibes

[@alicedubois1348]

I am totally going to tell that one to my son. He will seriously love it! 😂😂

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

Ha! You did the funny!

[@myscreen2urs]

The cooking robot was charged with a salt AND battery 🥁

[@Etanyos]

17:45, Mitchell's son, Silly-ass not Silas, lol, great video! Such an interesting illusion!

[@riffwizardsupreme]

i first heard about thoughty2 in 2014 when i was in the 6th grade. my science teacher used to play his videos a handful of times for intros to whatever subject.

[@masteryoda2918]

I saw a movie where the "Turk" actually was a clear system of gears and levers and was controlled by a midget that was hidden inside the box at the bottom.

[@fernandojuarez4499]

whats it called

[@masteryoda2918]

@@fernandojuarez4499 - sorry that was a translated - dubbed over from some other language movie from way back in the 70 - 80`s. I think it was German made, I could be wrong.

[@ShalmendoGlineux]

@@masteryoda2918 For some reason I thought you were referring to that one episode of Doctor Who lol

[@apollothefirst]

Turk: Can I play white? Napoleon: Hmm, can I be this time? Turk: REEEE LET ME BE WHITE I WANT TO BE WHITE!!!!!!

[@wsp995]

Lol

[@sumvs5992]

@Graham Murphy okay, how are a series of gears able to calculate moves that are able to match the best players at the time?

[@TheStrayy]

@@sumvs5992 it’s much more complicated than a couple of gears

[@Sandwich13455]

It's a woman

[@TheStrayy]

@@Sandwich13455 hey Siri. Find me a big. Beautiful. WOMAN

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

"Mitchell's son, 'Silly ass.'" Lol

[@winstinhunter7398]

Fantastic, once again your videos are beyond entertaining

[@GasMeltdown]

finally we have found him, history's biggest simp

[@francisconsidine4067]

A very smart simp

[@toothpasteman3400]

@@francisconsidine4067 a simp nonetheless

[@tprime2702]

Wasn't Maria Theresa a... I don't know, lunatic?

[@Jonathanizer]

Pretty sure this guy was compensated well for entertaining the court.

[@McL0VINNN]

Scholars have found that he sent hundreds of dollars to Belle Delphine.

[@alphaundpinsel2431]

the ultimate "he had us in the first half, not gonna lie"

[@felipecardoza9967]

EAP's analysis of this machine was a good read. Some of his reasons for debunking it was that it did not invariably win, it only did extra movements when the next move was obvious, the order of opening the doors to "prove" it was all machinery, as well as the fact that the automaton was often not exhibited when a certain person was ill...

[@Zypherfox1]

what's amazing is the thought of how the inventer made a device that can mimic a persons movements.

[@brantnuttall]

Chess playing pianist here. It's still known as Maelzel's Metronome and if you've ever wondered why at the beginning of some pieces have the indication MM: crotchet = 88, now you know what the MM stands for.

[@Maveraxus2.0]

“There was another reaction people had to the Turk- RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!!”

[@Nichodo]

Nice one man XD

[@Burn_Angel]

I imagined someone saying that, then being raided by vikings. Vikings with guns. *Gun vikings*

[@j7.018]

@@Burn_Angel Ooo joajajis I know what I'm going to draw today.

[@AcidxAnarchy]

We're doomed.

[@msaocer]

I got AFK Arena, the new Raid shadow legends

[@scoobyloo3157]

The best part of this VERY interesting video tho', was listening to T2 trying to say 'Edgar' and failing every time by pronouncing it 'Egdar'! 🤣🤣🤣

[@charliepea]

So many all-stars mentioned in this video. Man that machine must be so lucky to be part of their history.