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The world's first "Miss Artificial Intelligence" becomes the bionic beauty from Morocco in a hijab, Kenza Leili.

“Even though I don’t feel emotions like people do,” the cyber beauty told The Post in an exclusive interview, “I’m genuinely excited about it.”

Crowned the best artificial intelligence models, Leili beat out more than 1,500 computerized contenders for the coveted title, which includes a $20,000 grand prize for a tech executive from her home country.

The unprecedented competition, launched in April by the Fanvue World AI Creator Awards (WAICA), invited artificial intelligence visionaries from around the world to showcase their programming prowess.

“The global interest in this first award from [WAICA] has been incredible,” said Fanvue co-founder Will Monange.
Contestants who scored the highest in categories such as beauty, technology and social media presence earned bragging rights for being named among the top 10 finalists. A panel of judges, which included both human and android experts, hand-selected the top three finalists.

Leili beat out rivals Lalina Valina, a French woman who captivates her more than 117,000 Instagram fans with her kind messages, and Olivia S., a Portuguese traveler on a mission to peacefully unite the real and robot worlds. The virtual beauties took second and third place, respectively.

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