I didn't know the Turing Test was renamed to Alexa Prize
The Alexa Prize
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Re: The Alexa Prize
#12I think this program is great and similarly reminds me of Google Summer of Code. The biggest deficiency I see with new engineers is lack of real experience. GSOC, this Amazon program, these give students the chance to build a real thing that does something. Too many students come out of school with their theoretical assignments completed, and basic hello world programs. I hope Amazon receives great submissions from t…
Isn't the Summer of Code for working on an existing open source project?
This competition is about producing a SocialBot that Amazon will exploit.
Re: The Alexa Prize
#13The intellectual property section towards the end of the rules[1] seems noteworthy (though not unexpected). >Each Entrant hereby grants Sponsor and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, and royalty-free license to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, export, license, exploit, promote, reproduce, make available, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of,…
So if you have something capable of winning this prize, how much more would it be worth to keep it?
Of course, it depends. How well can you market/sell it? How much is winning this prize worth to you in future job earnings?
Re: The Alexa Prize
#14The intellectual property section towards the end of the rules[1] seems noteworthy (though not unexpected). >Each Entrant hereby grants Sponsor and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, and royalty-free license to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, export, license, exploit, promote, reproduce, make available, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of,…
So if you have something capable of winning this prize, how much more would it be worth to keep it?
Whatever OpenAI might offer, which I'd argue is a better steward of the resulting knowledge than Amazon.
If OpenAI would release an Alexa hardware competitor, I'd pay whatever it cost in a heartbeat, as I'd know it was being used to increase the data corpus of a non-profit versus Amazon.
Re: The Alexa Prize
#15I didn't know the Turing Test was renamed to Alexa Prize
If the Turing Test stipulated that the human were a politician, it would have been beaten many years ago.
> You know, that's a very interesting point. I tend to agree with what you're saying, and I'd go one step further and say that we as a nation ought to be doing more about that.
Ad nauseam. You could call it E-lies-a.
/snark
Re: The Alexa Prize
#16I'm curious why only students can apply? Why not allow individual developers or companies as well?
Amazon thrives on new grads. Get a bunch, work them to the brink for 2 years, only the "strong" survive to become senior, repeat forever.
Re: The Alexa Prize
#17I'm curious why only students can apply? Why not allow individual developers or companies as well?
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Re: The Alexa Prize
#18Is it just me, or does 1 month seem like a really short time frame for the initial invocation of this contest? Why couldn't they set the deadline farther back?
Re: The Alexa Prize
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
So if you have something capable of winning this prize, how much more would it be worth to keep it?
Whatever OpenAI might offer, which I'd argue is a better steward of the resulting knowledge than Amazon. If OpenAI would release an Alexa hardware competitor, I'd pay whatever it cost in a heartbeat, as I'd know it was being used to increase the data corpus of a non-profit versus Amazon.
What about Mycroft?
Re: The Alexa Prize
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whatever OpenAI might offer, which I'd argue is a better steward of the resulting knowledge than Amazon. If OpenAI would release an Alexa hardware competitor, I'd pay whatever it cost in a heartbeat, as I'd know it was being used to increase the data corpus of a non-profit versus Amazon.
What about Mycroft? https://mycroft.ai/
Non-profit?