The BBC happily reports that a British company, Icogno, has won the prestigious international Loebner Prize for the most convincingly lifelike AI, for the second year running. This year’s entry from Icogno is known as Joan, and she is a “26-year-old budding writer.” Do you think she has a LiveJournal? Would we know? When she writes her first best-selling fantasy trilogy, will Margaret Atwood let her use that clever remote signing device to help maintain her cover?