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 (HTM) Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net>
       Date:   Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:37:45 +0200
       
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       +.SH tgtimes
       +The Modern Mechanical Turk
       +.
       +.PP
       +In 1770, long before the exploitation of electricity, a machine was built in the pretention of being able to play Chess.
       +This machine named Mechanical Turk was nothing more than a moving puppet actuated by a small human, such as a child.
       +A child who is good at chess, that is!
       +.
       +.PP
       +Actuating levers, the operator would make the puppet move, fooling the audience that technical advances occasionally make use of black magic.
       +.
       +.PP
       +
       +.
       +.PP
       +I wish I would be 
       +and given the very large scale at which it is deployed, it means that you, web user, have experienced the Google, and later Cloudflare "captcha".
       +Testing whether an user is an individual or a bot would, at the opposite, explaining machines what is a bus, a tracktor, a crosswalk, or a traffic light.
       +.
       +.PP
       +Here is your Great Technological Singularity for the greatest common entertainment:
       +Nothing more than a moving puppet, actuated by humans.
       +.FS
       +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
       +.FE
       +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk