His original ‘imitation game’ predicted that by the year 2000, computers’ imitation of speech would be intelligent enough that it would be able to fool a human interrogator, 70% of the time.
Although the term ‘chatbot’ is nothing new and has in fact been around since the mid 1960s, the premise for AI conversation was actually first discussed by Alan Turing more than a decade earlier. His original ‘imitation game’ predicted that by the year 2000, computers’ imitation of speech would be intelligent enough that it would be able to fool a human interrogator, 70% of the time. Although this prediction didn’t come to fruition, the development of chatbots and their integration in digital functions through to today is impressive.