{"id":22281,"date":"2016-02-17T23:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T07:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/ibm-watson-x-prize-offers-4-5m-for-ai-ready-to-speak-at-ted-2020-wired-uk"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:10:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:10:38","slug":"ibm-watson-x-prize-offers-4-5m-for-ai-ready-to-speak-at-ted-2020-wired-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/ibm-watson-x-prize-offers-4-5m-for-ai-ready-to-speak-at-ted-2020-wired-uk","title":{"rendered":"IBM Watson X Prize offers $4.5m for AI ready to speak at TED 2020 (Wired UK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibm-watson-x-prize-offers-4-5m-for-ai-ready-to-speak-at-ted-2020-wired-uk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/ted\">TED<\/a> curator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/Chris-Anderson\">Chris Anderson<\/a> just announced the world\u2019s biggest speaking fee \u2014 a $4.5m (\u00a33.1m) cheque to be awarded to a speaker at the 2020 TED conference. There\u2019s just one catch: the speaker must be an artificial intelligence, which convinces the audience that it has mastered the art of the 18-minute TED talk.<\/p>\n<p>The IBM Watson AI X Prize, announced on Wednesday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/\">TED conference<\/a> in Vancouver, will offer $4.5 million to the team that develops an artificial intelligence showing \u201chow humans can collaborate with powerful cognitive technologies to tackle some of the world\u2019s grand challenges\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Diamandis, chairman of the X Prize Foundation, said the winner would be chosen by the TED audience in 2020, when three finalists \u2014 either AIs or AI human partnerships \u2014 \u201ccome on stage to deliver jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring TED talks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2016-02\/17\/ted-2020-ibm-watson-x-prize\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TED curator Chris Anderson just announced the world\u2019s biggest speaking fee \u2014 a $4.5m (\u00a33.1m) cheque to be awarded to a speaker at the 2020 TED conference. There\u2019s just one catch: the speaker must be an artificial intelligence, which convinces the audience that it has mastered the art of the 18-minute TED talk. The IBM [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2020,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-diamandis","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22281","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68402,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22281\/revisions\/68402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}