Chatty computer wins again

A computer chat program called Alice has won the Loebner Prize for the second time.
The program triumphed in the annual competition to find the computer with the best conversational skills - held this year at the Science Museum in London, UK.

The organisers of the Loebner Prize hand medals and cash prizes to the inventors of computer programs that can maintain the most life-like dialogue.

1. Loebner Prize - The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the computer programs considered by the judges to be the most human-like.