Turing machines only model computation. Real life is interaction. Check the work of Peter Wegner. When interaction machines enter into the picture, AI can be embodied, situated and participate in adaptation processes. The emergent behaviour may bring AGI in a pragmatic perspective. But interaction is far more expressive than computation rendering theoretical analysis challenging.

Interaction is just another computation, and clearly we can interact with computers, and also simulate that interaction within the computer, so yes Turing machines can handle it. I'll check out Wegner.

I have used Erlang when elixir still had to emerge. Today, I am using Elixir, with Phoenix LiveView and OTP Genserver, Supervisor and ETS.

I would start with Elixir, if only because of its newbie friendly community. The Erlang community is reflected in the 'erlang in anger' book.

But if you need to deploy on a small platform, say 32 bit 100MBytes, Erlang is the way to go.

Please know that both languages share a lot (the BEAM). Either will do to get to know the technology.

You can decompile bytecode to erlang .