Mitsuku chatbot wins Loebner Prize for most humanlike A.I., yet again

With all the hustle and bustle going on in the world of chatbots at the moment, one crucial event that is very relevant to the future of A.I. has gone relatively unnoticed. If you are interested in chatbots and A.I., you may have heard about the Loebner Prize, which was created by Hugh Loebner and is a form of the Turing Test that Alan Turing first set up in the 1950s. The Loebner Prize is an annual event in which A.I. specialists from around the world come together to play their bots off against a panel of judges in a battle for the most humanlike A.I. The goal is to trick the judges into thinking they are talking to a real person. The event has been hosted all over the world, but since 2014, it has been held in Bletchley Park in the U.K., due to the connection between Alan Turing and Bletchley during the second World War.