A Brief Historical Overview of Botification
The world first saw the concept of interactive bots emerge in the 1950s with Professor Alan Turing’s attempts to recreate his lost boyfriend in a machine. Then came the prototypical chatbots Alice and Eliza as the first intelligent agents operating as machine–human interaction.
These botified, female 2D avatars were the beginning of the post-1960s application of the now famous Turing Test. Derived from Professor Turing’s musings on the emergent field, it says we as a species will have achieved Artificial Intelligence (AI) when laypeople talk with a computer. If after five minutes of conversing via the machine interface they are not sure if it is a human or not they are chatting with, then ...
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