The X Prize Foundation and IBM haveofficially launcheda global artificial intelligence activity competition that provides player with the chance to compete for $ 5 million . The contest , dub “ IBM Watson A.I. XPRIZE : A Cognitive Computing Competition , ” was herald this morning at TED2016 .
The competition receive squad from around the world to rein in the magnate of unreal news ( AI ) to brainstorm a solution to some of the satellite ’s most pressing problems .
“ X Prize believes that artificial intelligence is the just tool in our toolkit to cover the creation ’s grand challenges and enceinte problems , ” say Stephanie Wander , X Prize development associate degree and lead dirty money designer , to IFLScience .
Which tremendous problem will the developers have to tackle ? That ’s what set this competition asunder from X Prize ’s old competitions . This time , the participants call the stroke , designing their own result to a challenge of their choosing . The only guideline is that it remains in the realm of AI - Human collaboration .
Although the prize achiever will not be announced until 2020 , there ’s more to the competitor in the lead up to the vainglorious day . Each year , teams will contend for interim prizes and advancement to next yr ’s contest .
Meron Gribetz talk at TED2016 - Dream , February 15 - 19 , 2016 , Vancouver Convention Center , Vancouver , Canada . Photo : Bret Hartman
While the ultimate goal is to incentivize AI origination and to beg into the top executive of contender , Wander also hope it will “ battle the dystopian narrative ” and “ be a slenderly different voice in the marketplace and take a stand for the really authoritative things that we think is going to fare out of unreal intelligence . ”
The top three finalist will go head - to - capitulum at TED2020 , where they will give a presentation and seek to sway the TED consultation and judges in their favor so as to be top the grand prize winner .
All in all , X Prize ’s promise is two - fold : Technological advancement and a more cocksure shift in perception toward artificial intelligence .
“ The AI news report is very dim and ashen and we want to tell a more colorful write up , ” said Wander . “ AI is too important not to develop . ”
X Prize will annunciate the contest ’s full guidelines in May . Interested participants canpre - register here .
