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Alexa Prize

The Alexa Prize is a series of competitions for university students dedicated to accelerating the field of artificial intelligence. Participating teams will advance several areas of AI through generalizable methodologies such as continuous learning, teachable AI, multimodal understanding, and reasoning.

Through the innovative work of students, Amazon Alexa customers will have novel, engaging interactions. And, the immediate feedback from these customers will help students improve their algorithms much faster than previously possible.

Challenges

Learn more about the three Alexa Prize challenges.
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    SimBot Challenge
    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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    TaskBot Challenge
    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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    SocialBot Grand Challenge
    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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    Teams
    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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    Proceedings
    See the research in conversational AI resulting from the pursuit of the Alexa Prize competition goals.
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    FAQs
    Before getting in touch, check and see if we've covered your query in our frequently asked questions.
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    Alexa Skills Kit
    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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