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Artificially intelligent Turk died in 1854 at the Philadephia Chinese Museum fire. Gradually exposed as Hoax, Ben Franklin had played Turk and E.A.Poe wrote about him, displayed from 1770s von Kempelen's invention. <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/08/20/the_turk_an_supposed_chess_playing_robot_was_a_hoax_that_started_an_early.html">Automaton</a><p> What will <b>Oil Rig ChessBase</b> publish as this April 1 Prank? They will not do another recent fixation on gadget like 2014 oil rig and 2015 miniature dental computer. The title or topic of tomorrow's Prank has initial letter 'S' in its two keywords. (safe bet about 1 in 10?)<p> It is interesting that promoters of the Turk's performances were certainly thinking Artificial Intelligence during 1780-1840: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21876120">The_Turk</a>. In terms of ecologic values, Humans are unintelligent. One of the recent Go-Computer articles headlined "Still Think You Are Better than AI?" Unknown by techies biologists use the same wording: <a href="http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/human-intelligence-versus-whales-and-dolphins/">Low_Order</a>.