Challenges
Learn more about the three Alexa Prize challenges.
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The challenge is focused on helping advance development of next-gen virtual assistants that will assist humans in completing real-world tasks by continuously learning, and gaining the ability to perform commonsense reasoning.
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The challenge is focused on developing agents that assist customers in completing complex tasks that require multiple steps and decisions. It's the first conversational AI challenge to incorporate multimodal (voice and vision) customer experiences.
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The grand challenge is focused on creating a SocialBot, an Alexa skill that converses coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics and news events for 20-minutes, while achieving an average rating of at least 4.0/5.0.
Resources
Find more information about the Alexa Prize, and related initiatives from Amazon.
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View the competing Alexa Prize teams from universities around the world, and learn more about the students, team leaders, and faculty advisors.
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See the research in conversational AI resulting from the pursuit of the Alexa Prize competition goals.
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Before getting in touch, check and see if we've covered your query in our frequently asked questions.
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Teams build their bots using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), which enables them to receive continuous feedback on their inventions in real-world settings.
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Find out which conferences and events Amazon scientists and researchers will be presenting at, and how to get in touch with them.
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We hire world-class academics as Amazon Scholars and Amazon Visiting Academics to work on large-scale technical challenges, while they continue to teach.
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We collaborate with scientists around the globe to fund research, share knowledge and encourage innovation. Learn more about our call for proposals.
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Learn more about upcoming workshops, presentations, and challenges at industry events and conferences.
Videos
Hear from university teams, faculty members, and Amazon scientists.
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Introducing the Alexa Prize
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I believe the dreamers come first, and the builders come second. A lot of the dreamers are science fiction authors, they’re artists...They invent these ideas, and they get catalogued as impossible. And we find out later, well, maybe it’s not impossible. Things that seem impossible if we work them the right way for long enough, sometimes for multiple generations, they become possible.
Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon