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Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 2020: The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 (the “Competition”) is a skill competition sponsored by Amazon.com Services LLC (“Sponsor”), where competing teams of college or university students build a conversational Alexa skill using the Alexa Skills Kit APIs that converses with users on popular topics and current events via Amazon Alexa (a “Socialbot”). Selected finalists (as outlined below) will have their Socialbots compete in an event scheduled to take place in July 2021, with the final results announced in August 2021. See below for the complete Competition details.

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Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 2020


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Notification:Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 2020
Eligibility:Undergraduate or Post-graduate student
Deadline:October 6, 2020, 23:59:59 PDT
Location:India
Application:Online
Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 2020

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About Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge:

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.

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Challenge:

The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge will be competed for the fourth time since launching in 2017. A multimillion-dollar university challenge to advance human-computer interaction, competing teams will create socialbots that can converse coherently and engagingly for 20 minutes with humans on a range of current events and popular topics such as entertainment, sports, politics, technology, and fashion while earning a rating of 4.0 out of 5.0. Selected university teams will receive a $250,000 research grant, Alexa-enabled devices, free Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support their development efforts, and access to other tools, data, and Alexa team support.

By applying to or participating in the Competition, you agree to these Official Rules. Please read them carefully.

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.

PHASESSTARTS ON:ENDS ON:
PHASE 1:Participant Application PeriodSeptember 9, 2020October 6, 2020 at
11:59 PM PT
PHASE 2: Sponsor Application Review PeriodOctober 7, 2020October 21, 2020
PHASE 3: Participant Notification Period/OnboardingBetween October 22 and November 6, 2020
PHASE 4: Initial Skills Development PeriodNovember 9, 2020December 18, 2020 at 
11:59 PM PT
PHASE 5: Skill Certification PeriodDecember 21, 2020December 30, 2020
PHASE 6: Internal Amazon Beta PeriodJanuary 4, 2021January 15, 2021
PHASE 7: Initial Feedback PeriodJanuary 18, 2021February 26, 2021
PHASE 8: Quarterfinals Interaction PeriodMarch 2, 2021April 30, 2021
PHASE 9: Semifinals Interaction PeriodMay 4, 2021June 25, 2021
PHASE 10: Additional Feedback PhaseJuly 5, 2021July 23, 2021
PHASE 11: Finals EventJuly 2021
WINNERS ANNOUNCEDAugust 2021

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Eligibility:

To be eligible to enter the Competition, you must: (1) be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate or post-graduate student at an accredited college or university (other than colleges or universities located in any of the restricted jurisdictions outlined below) (“Universities”) and remain a full-time student in good standing at such University while participating in the Competition; (2) be at or above the age of majority in your country, state, province or jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry; and (3) not be a person or entity under U.S. export controls or sanctions. Competition is void in Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, the region of Crimea, and where prohibited by law. People who, during the Competition Period, are directors, officers, employees, interns, and contractors (“Personnel”) of Sponsor, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective advertising, promotion and public relations agencies, representatives, and agents (collectively, “Competition Entities”), immediate families members of such Personnel (parents, siblings, children, spouses, and life partners of each) and members of the households of such Personnel (whether related or not) are ineligible to participate in this Competition. Sponsor reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time.

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