{"id":10407,"date":"2014-03-20T18:20:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T01:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10407"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:15:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:15:29","slug":"a-robot-worthy-of-a-standing-ovation-theres-an-x-prize-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/a-robot-worthy-of-a-standing-ovation-theres-an-x-prize-for-that","title":{"rendered":"A Robot Worthy of a Standing Ovation? There\u2019s an X Prize for That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By James Eng \u2014 NBC News<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ember-view\" id=\"ember939\">Many a human genius has taken the stage at <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TED2014\/\">TED<\/a>, the annual big-idea-sharing conference for techies and innovators, and wowed audiences with thought-provoking talks. Now what if a robot were able to do the same, and earn a standing ovation for its effort?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ember-view\" id=\"ember940\">Farfetched, you say? Not for the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xprize.org\/\">X Prize<\/a>, which on Thursday announced it was partnering with TED to create a competition \u201cfor the development of artificial intelligence (AI) so advanced that it could deliver a compelling TED Talk with no human involvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ember-view\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/innovation\/robot-worthy-standing-ovation-theres-x-prize-n58226\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Eng \u2014 NBC News Many a human genius has taken the stage at TED, the annual big-idea-sharing conference for techies and innovators, and wowed audiences with thought-provoking talks. Now what if a robot were able to do the same, and earn a standing ovation for its effort? Farfetched, you say? Not for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47171,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions\/47171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}