By Ed Chatterton

A model has been crowned the winner of the world's first AI beauty pageant after wowing judges with a computer-generated "digital twin" clone of herself.

University graduate Jessica Pliskin, 23, made history after coming out on top in the futuristic Black Mirror-style Avatar Round, which was introduced this year for the first time in the Miss England contest.

The divisive round featured beauty queens creating digitally cloned versions of their real-life selves to perform corporate presentations to the camera using fully-animated avatars.

They were then judged on their grasp and understanding of the technology before their avatars were pitched to brands and agencies in a bid to secure commercial contracts for a tech firm.

Jessica's digital twin - named Jessa - can be

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