Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of study officially born in the XX century.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is[ a field of study ](http://Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of study officially born in the XX century. However, there were some prominent personalities during the XVI-XVII scientific revolution talking about the relationship between machine and intelligence. Way back in 1637, Descartes said that one day there would be a machine capable of acting and thinking intelligently. And he wasn't wrong at all! Besides early scientists' studies and conjectures, in 1950 the British mathematician Alan Turing wrote an article for the magazine "Mind" titled "Computing machinery and intelligence". Turing described a method to identify whether or not a machine is intelligent: he called it "The Imitation Game". The game, commonly known as the Turing Test, is simple and intuitive. There are three elements, a machine, an operator and a person. The latter has one task only: establishing the entity of the speaker by asking him/her/it questions. If the operator can not tell if he is speaking to a human being or a machine, the Turing Test is positive (therefore the machine is intelligent). However, to get to the definition we know today, we must wait a few more years. In 1956 John McCarthy, an American computer scientist, brought together the best academics in the field and, at the end of the conference, a new definition was coined, "artificial intelligence". written By Shaiq)officially born in the XX century. However, there were some prominent personalities during the XVI-XVII scientific revolution talking about the relationship between machine and intelligence. Way back in 1637, Descartes said that one day there would be a machine capable of acting and thinking intelligently. And he wasn’t wrong at all! Besides early scientists’ studies and conjectures, in 1950 the British mathematician Alan Turing wrote an article for the magazine “Mind” titled “Computing machinery and intelligence”. Turing described a method to identify whether or not a machine is intelligent: he called it “The Imitation Game”. The game, commonly known as the Turing Test, is simple and intuitive. There are three elements, a machine, an operator and a person. The latter has one task only: establishing the entity of the speaker by asking him/her/it questions. If the operator can not tell if he is speaking to a human being or a machine, the Turing Test is positive (therefore the machine is intelligent). However, to get to the definition we know today, we must wait a few more years. In 1956 John McCarthy, an American computer scientist, brought together the best academics in the field and, at the end of the conference, a new definition was coined, “artificial intelligence”.

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