Alan Turing
British mathematician Alan Turing, c. 1930s. Turing did the earliest work on AI, and he introduced many of the central concepts of AI in a report entitled “Intelligent Machinery” (1948).
chatbot
computer program
Also known as: chatterbot
chatbot, computer program designed to have interactive or automated conversation with humans. Rudimentary chatbots were first developed in the mid-to-late 20th century and became more technically sound and widely available in the late 2010s and early 2020s, especially as artificial intelligence (AI) gained prominence in the technology sphere. The idea for the technology that preceded chatbot programs was first conceptualized by British mathematician and logician Alan Turing. In 1950 Turing proposed a set of criteria...
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