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/ The Turing Test /

In 1950, Alan Turing, a British scientist, published
a famous article "Computing Machinery and
Intelligence”, which proposed the Turing Test as a
criterion for artificial intelligence. A machine can be
considered "intelligent" if it is difficult to distinguish
whether its response is from a human or a computer
programme. This has formed a standard for
chatbots.

092 According to Boris Katz, an MIT chief scientific
researcher who developed a virtual assistant 40
years ago, today's chatbots (such as iPhone's Siri)
are not that smart because they just retrieve preset
answers to questions matching yours from their
database. It can answer the preset questions, but
lacks common sense and cannot understand the
motive behind the behaviour. Therefore, it is difficult
for chatbots to truly interact with human beings at
the moment.