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31 Jan

An Inside Look at the 2017 Alexa Prize Finals

Posted January 31, 2018 by cognitivecomputing in Agents, Language, Learning, Opinion, Talks. Tagged: , , .

The Alexa Prize is an annual university competition to advance the state of Conversational AI. Last November, Rohit Prasad, vice president and head scientist, Alexa Machine Learning, and I had the pleasure of announcing the winner of the inaugural competition.

Judging a conversational AI competition is super hard because conversation is inherently subjective; there isn’t a clear right or wrong response at each turn in a dialog, nor a precise definition of what makes a conversation “coherent” or “engaging”. This short film explains how the finals were conducted, and showcases the winning teams from University of Washington, Czech Technical University, and Heriot-Watt University.

See what the best conversational socialbots can do today, and what more needs to be done to solve this very hard problem.


VIEW THE FILM:

youtu.be/WTGuOg7GXYU


SPEAK WITH THE SOCIALBOTS:
Just say “Alexa, let’s chat” to your Alexa-enabled device.

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