Tom Standage

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Although we assume artificial intelligence is a modern phenomenon, Tom Standage claims we can trace it back to the 18th century. He discusses the famous 18th-century chess playing machine The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine.

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