From Chess-playing machines to AI Classrooms: The evolution of learning technology
The HinduThe story of education is the story of humanity itself - one that evolved from the flickering firelight of ancient caves to the glowing screens of AI-powered classrooms. Kempelen’s Mechanical Turk In 1770s a Hungarian bureaucrat called Wolfgang von Kempelen presented a show with an automaton that he had built. It was not until Karl Gottlieb von Windisch’s reveal in his “Inanimate Reason” essay published in 1784 that the truth was revealed - There was a chess player hidden within the cabinet, following the game on a tiny chessboard and moving the Turk using levers. Early years of building interest in AI Kempelen’s Mechanical Turk has had an outsized impact not only in the field of entertainment but in the general idea of Artificial Intelligence and its role in many areas including education. It wasn’t until the nineteenth century that education systems became universal, based on the Prussian system and on Horace Mann’s faith that education could level the playing field.
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