This clarification is important because when we talk about artificial intelligence, we always imagine a thinking machine, which is aware of itself, and can make decisions. This is the case of ELIZA, a chatbot written in 1966 by a German computer scientist, which simulates the questions of a psychotherapist at the beginning of the psychiatric intervention, reworking the answers of the interlocutor.Īnyway, besides being very interesting from a historical point of view, the Turing test is the key to understanding what we are trying to do today with artificial intelligence: solving optimization problems and providing support in decision-making processes, not creating a thinking machine. The test was reformulated overtime to make it more reliable, given that in some circumstances even simple, obviously not intelligent applications pass it. To avoid contact, interactions must be conveyed in another way, such as by typing. The man also has the task of deceiving the third person to put him on the wrong path, while the woman has the task of helping him. In its original formulation the test involves three participants, a man, a woman and a third person who cannot have contact with the first two and to whom he can ask a series of questions to establish which of the two is the man and which the woman.
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