It is like listening to real person speak, well almost anyway. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has certainly come a long way in recent years. While we are still a long way from anything like in the movie AI, advancements like the ALICE project are certainly bringing us a few steps closer.

It was judged to be chattiest bot out of the four finalists in the Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence held in New York on Sunday.

British hopeful, Jabberwacky, came second in the annual competition.

The event is based on the Turing Test, which suggests computers could be seen as intelligent if their chat was indistinguishable from those of humans.