{"id":79582,"date":"2018-06-13T06:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/inside-amazons-3-5-million-competition-to-make-alexa-chat-like-a-human"},"modified":"2018-06-13T06:42:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:42:45","slug":"inside-amazons-3-5-million-competition-to-make-alexa-chat-like-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/inside-amazons-3-5-million-competition-to-make-alexa-chat-like-a-human","title":{"rendered":"Inside Amazon\u2019s $3.5 million competition to make Alexa chat like a human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-amazons-3-5-million-competition-to-make-alexa-chat-like-a-human.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Onstage at the launch of Amazon\u2019s Alexa Prize, a multimillion-dollar competition to build AI that can chat like a human, the winners of last year\u2019s challenge delivered a friendly warning to 2018\u2019s hopefuls: your bot <em>w<\/em><em>ill<\/em> mess up, it <em>will <\/em>say something offensive, and it <em>will<\/em> be taken offline. Elizabeth Clark, a member of last year\u2019s champion Sounding Board team from the University of Washington, was onstage with her fellow researchers to share what they\u2019d learned from their experience. What stuck out, she said, were the bloopers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/platform\/amp\/2018\/6\/13\/17453994\/amazon-alexa-prize-2018-competition-conversational-ai-chatbots?__twitter_impression=true\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/platform\/amp\/2018\/6\/13\/17453994\/ama...ssion=true<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onstage at the launch of Amazon\u2019s Alexa Prize, a multimillion-dollar competition to build AI that can chat like a human, the winners of last year\u2019s challenge delivered a friendly warning to 2018\u2019s hopefuls: your bot will mess up, it will say something offensive, and it will be taken offline. Elizabeth Clark, a member of last [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79582","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}