Creating a Telegram bot

Telegram Messenger is an instant messaging app that has good support for creating bots. Bots are small applications that aim to produce automatic conversations. The big promise of bots is that, as machines, they can create any kind of conversation, totally indistinguishable from a conversation with a human being, and pass the Turing Test, but that objective is quite ambitious and not realistic for the most part.

The Turing Test was proposed by Alan Turing in 1951. Two participants, a human and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine/software program, communicate via text (like in an instant messaging app) with a human judge that decides which one is human and which one is not. If the judge can only guess correctly 50% of the time, it can't be easily differentiated and therefore the AI passes the test. This was one of the first attempts to measure AI.

But bots can be very useful for a more limited approach, similar to phone systems where...