See crowdsourcing. The name comes from Wolfgang von Kempelen's mechanical "Turk" in the mid-1700s, which was an expert chess player dressed up as a wooden mannequin. Defeating challengers ...

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

From the Mechanical Turk to Elon Musk's remote-controlled ... and have it correct the European tyrant's illegal chess moves. Later robot "inventors" took note: The more brazen the fake, the ...