Ecce Robot

An encrypted conversation between two artificial intelligences, the construction of the first neural network and what distinguishes a robot from a machine. Ecce Robot is the story of an unstoppable process that began with a simple game: a man, a woman and a third person, the latter separated from the other two must establish with a series of questions who the man is and who the woman is. From here the famous British scientist Alan Turing went on to write the basics of artificial intelligence: by changing the rules of the game of imitation, the goal of his test will not be to distinguish man from woman, but the human being from the machine.

An artificial voice, created by a Machine Learning algorithm, dialogues with the founding father of computer science, retracing the fundamental stages of the history of artificial intelligence, but also the thoughts and hopes of the English scientist, accompanying us to the doors of the new industrial revolution in which man and machine will work side by side and beyond. The documentary tells of the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on contemporary society, the risks to privacy, to work, to our identity.