The 2019 Loebner Prize winner has been announced! While once again there is no recipient of the grand prize, a feat reserved for the AI that passes the Turing Test, the annual event nonetheless inspires and excites those who await singularity. The Loebner prize is offered up every year to an AI program that can beat the Turing test, a measurement of the ability for AI to mimic human thinking and response. Every year, contestants enter their AI designed to replicate human behavior in typed conversation, visual, and auditory interaction.

When it comes time that an AI passes the Turing Test, life as we know it will shift. There will be significant ethical ramifications to which we currently don’t have ways to address. However, we better figure it out soon because this day is coming faster than you think.