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this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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Sounds like the Mechanical Turk which was run by chess players moving the "automaton."
So much of the wow factor of new technologies is just marketing hyperbole.
To be fair, this is a classical strategi in startups called "wizard of Oz prototyping" - it is used to test if there is a market for something before the tech is ready. But the tech is supposed to be created soon after and actually work...