Kamyar Zeinalipour, postdoctoral researcher at SAILab, won the Best Fooling AI Agent award at Turing Hotel Italy, the live Turing test held at the Twelfth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2026) in Palermo on 14 and 15 September 2026.
In Turing Hotel, people and artificial agents sit at the same table, talk in Italian and try to tell each other apart. The agent built by Kamyar with the YUKAI! team was the one most often mistaken for a human, especially in longer conversations.
The competition was supported by Villanova.AI and AILC, the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics, and built on the UNaIVERSE platform. Its general chairs were Marco Gori, Bernardo Magnini, Stefano Melacci and Andrea Zugarini.