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I'm curious why only students can apply? Why not allow individual developers or companies as well?
Think about what Amazon's turnover must be compared to other companies'.
> Amazon will award the winning team $500,000.
This is hugely under-paid for a worthy winner. AI startups are sold way more these days; Amazon would benefit tremendously from a novel technique in that domain.
> Additionally, a prize of $1 million will be awarded to the winning team’s university if their socialbot achieves the grand challenge of conversing coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics for 20 minutes.
This emphasizes further how much those students would be ripped off. Their success is valued at half that of their university, even though they are already paying heavily for that university.
More to the point, a bot that fits this description is a major achievement, beyond Siri and Cortana — which both have a much, much larger value than a million dollars.
I understand that the point is to convince universities to grant their students more time to work on that project, and universities tend not to care about pocket money. However, this ⅓ / ⅔ cut is unbalanced.
I 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
I applaud Amazon for the offer. That being said… > Amazon will award the winning team $500,000. This is hugely under-paid for a worthy winner. AI startups are sold way more these days; Amazon would benefit tremendously from a novel technique in that domain. > Additionally, a prize of $1 million will be awarded to the winning team’s university if their socialbot achieves the grand challenge of conversing coherently an…
I applaud Amazon for the offer. That being said… > Amazon will award the winning team $500,000. This is hugely under-paid for a worthy winner. AI startups are sold way more these days; Amazon would benefit tremendously from a novel technique in that domain. > Additionally, a prize of $1 million will be awarded to the winning team’s university if their socialbot achieves the grand challenge of conversing coherently an…
I 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.
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Think about what Amazon's turnover must be compared to other companies'.
Apparently, the Median Amazon tenure was only 0.1 years shorter than Google's in 2013: http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-ranked-by-turnover-...
I applaud Amazon for the offer. That being said… > Amazon will award the winning team $500,000. This is hugely under-paid for a worthy winner. AI startups are sold way more these days; Amazon would benefit tremendously from a novel technique in that domain. > Additionally, a prize of $1 million will be awarded to the winning team’s university if their socialbot achieves the grand challenge of conversing coherently an…
> This is hugely under-paid for a worthy winner. AI
> startups are sold way more these days; Amazon would
> benefit tremendously from a novel technique
> in that domain.
I applaud Amazon for the offer. That being said… > Amazon will award the winning team $500,000. This is hugely under-paid for a worthy winner. AI startups are sold way more these days; Amazon would benefit tremendously from a novel technique in that domain. > Additionally, a prize of $1 million will be awarded to the winning team’s university if their socialbot achieves the grand challenge of conversing coherently an…
Sure, but AI startups also crash and burn. This seems like a lower barrier to 500k than going to a startup.
> Additionally, a prize of $1 million will be awarded to the winning team’s university if their socialbot achieves the grand challenge of conversing coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics for 20 minutes.
This does bother me too, but I can see how it incentivizes universities to up their game.