Amazon Offers $2.5 Meg Alexa Prize For Talking Ai: Hurry 26 Days 'Til Deadline

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Gadgethemes.com - Amazon has offered a $2.5 Million to the commencement grouping who develops Alexa to a conversational AI. The Alexa Prize volition hold out given to the developers who turns Alexa, the vocalization service into a social AI capable of conversing alongside humans for twenty minutes.

What is the Alexa Prize?

The Alexa Prize, which was declared on Th past times Amazon, is solely opened upward to schoolhouse groups. The successful grouping volition accept habitation $500,000 USD along alongside a $1M query let to the crew's schoolhouse or higher education. It's apparent that Amazon volition receive got a royalty-free license of the talking AI.

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How volition the winning squad hold out decided?

If you've watched Ex-Machina together with then yous must hold out aware of the Turing Test. Well, the Alexa Prize volition hold out given to the squad who'd prepare a chat bot that could choke this test. The Turing Test requires a human gauge to differentiate betwixt 2 conversation partners, 1 human together with the other a computer. The Alexa Prize is a Turing Test because of the semantics (natural linguistic communication conversation) involved.

Tips For Participants

It would hold out a fair advice for the participating teams to non usage Twitter equally their dataset. According to The Guardian, Microsoft did that together with their chat-bot turned out to hold out racist. It'd hold out improve to usage Markov chains together with raspberry pi inwards your way to Arduino this Bot.

Wait, there's more

Prizes for developing AI receive got been offered since the 1990s. The Loebner Prize, which is cosponsored past times good known AI Developer Marvin Minsky, has already offered a prize of $100,000 along alongside a aureate medal to the commencement estimator that can't hold out distinguished from a human inwards talks. Prizes receive got been awarded yearly to the squad whose estimator is to a greater extent than similar a human inwards comparing to its competition.

Such a organization would to a greater extent than heighten than whatsoever introduce conversational AI, said Rohit Prasad, vice chairman of Amazon Alexa. To assist the reason, upward to 10 of the taking move groups are to become Alexa-enabled devices, a $100,000 stipend, gratuitous cloud computing along alongside back upward from Amazon's Alexa team.

Amazon considers the prize volition atomic number 82 to novel scientific breakthroughs inwards the manufacture of conversational AI, past times helping computers communicate together with engage inwards reasoning. Teams interested inwards participating tin submit their Program betwixt Sep 29 together with Oct 28, here.