The Alexa Prize is a global competition for university students dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational AI.
The way humans interact with machines is at an inflection point and conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of the transformation.
Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo, enables customers to interact with the world around them in a more intuitive way using only their voice.
The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge is a competition for university students dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational AI. The competition is focused on creating a socialbot, an Alexa skill that converses coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics and news events. Participating teams will advance several areas of conversational AI including knowledge acquisition, natural language understanding, natural language generation, context modeling, commonsense reasoning and dialog planning. Through the innovative work of students, Alexa customers will have novel, engaging conversations. And, the immediate feedback from Alexa customers will help students improve their algorithms much faster than previously possible.
COMPETITION CALENDAR: The Competition starts on October 19, 2020 and ends in July 2021 the "Competition Period"). The Competition phases are noted in the calendar below. The dates are approximate and are subject to change at Sponsor’s discretion.
PHASES | STARTS ON: | ENDS ON: |
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PHASE 1:Participant Application Period | September 9, 2020 | October 6, 2020 at 11:59 PM PT |
PHASE 2: Sponsor Application Review Period | October 7, 2020 | October 21, 2020 |
PHASE 3: Participant Notification Period/Onboarding | Between October 22 and November 6, 2020 | |
PHASE 4: Initial Skills Development Period | November 9, 2020 | December 18, 2020 at 11:59 PM PT |
PHASE 5: Skill Certification Period | December 21, 2020 | December 30, 2020 |
PHASE 6: Internal Amazon Beta Period | January 4, 2021 | January 15, 2021 |
PHASE 7: Initial Feedback Period | January 18, 2021 | February 26, 2021 |
PHASE 8: Quarterfinals Interaction Period | March 2, 2021 | April 30, 2021 |
PHASE 9: Semifinals Interaction Period | May 4, 2021 | June 25, 2021 |
PHASE 10: Additional Feedback Phase | July 5, 2021 | July 23, 2021 |
PHASE 11: Finals Event | July 2021 | |
WINNERS ANNOUNCED | August 2021 |
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