But how would we know when a computer had achieved human-like intelligence? Alan Turing, the man many consider to be the father of modern digital computing posited a solution to this question decades before digital computing became ubiquitous in our world.
In 1997, an IBM computer called Deep Blue beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.
For the past few weeks, our imagination has been captivated by an artificial intelligence bot called ChatGPT.