{"id":17824,"date":"2020-02-17T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=17824"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:06","slug":"u-m-team-reaches-quarterfinal-in-ai-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/17\/u-m-team-reaches-quarterfinal-in-ai-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M team reaches quarterfinal in AI competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"University of Michigan\u2019s Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge team\" class=\"wp-image-17828\"\/><figcaption>(Wook Suk Seo\/School of Information)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Alexa Socialbot Grand Challenge 3 is a university competition to further the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) by building a conversational Alexa skill.  Out of hundreds of entries from 15 countries, 10 teams were selected, <a href=\"https:\/\/engaged.umich.edu\/news-features\/alexa-lets-chat-how-u-m-9-teams-worldwide-are-advancing-conversational-ai\/\">including one from U-M<\/a>.  Teams are tasked with creating a socialbot, a robotic automated program that can have conversations about popular societal topics and current events.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of Feb. 3, the  U-M team&#8217;s socialbot (dubbed Audrey) is in the Quarter-Final Stage which ends Mar. 17. Final winners will be announced in June, 2020. The winning team will be awarded $500,000; the second and third place teams awarded $100,000 and $50,000 respectively. If the winning team is able to accomplish the Grand Prize of their socialbot conversing with users for at least 20 minutes with a 4 out of 5 rating, their university will be awarded a $1 million research grant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alexa Socialbot Grand Challenge 3 is a university competition to further the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) by building a conversational Alexa skill. Out of hundreds of entries from 15 countries, 10 teams were selected, including one from U-M. Teams are tasked with creating a socialbot, a robotic automated program that can have conversations about popular societal\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/17\/u-m-team-reaches-quarterfinal-in-ai-competition\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,801,96],"class_list":["post-17824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-ai","tag-competition","tag-students"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-e1582505656468.jpg",599,419,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-e1582505656468-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-e1582505656468-286x200.jpg",286,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-768x511.jpg",665,442,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-700x466.jpg",600,399,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-1536x1022.jpg",1536,1022,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-e1582505656468.jpg",599,419,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-e1582505656468-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-e1582505656468-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-e1582505656468-599x300.jpg",599,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-665x442.jpg",665,442,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/alexa-team-content-e1582505656468.jpg",357,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Alexa Socialbot Grand Challenge 3 is a university competition to further the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) by building a conversational Alexa skill. 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