A brief history

AI was born in the very early days of computing. In 1950, Alan Turing published an article in which he posed the question "Can machines think?" The author proposed a test, now known as the Turing Test, designed to answer the question posed. In this test, inspired by the imitation game, a person questions a machine and a human being he cannot see. When, on the basis of the answers provided, the questioner can no longer distinguish between the human being and the machine, the machine is declared intelligent. Questions can be of any type. So far, no program has been able to fool an interviewer for long...