UW News
Noah Smith
November 28, 2017
UW students win Amazon’s inaugural Alexa Prize for most engaging socialbot
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A team of University of Washington students and faculty has won Amazon’s inaugural Alexa Prize, a university competition designed to produce an artificial intelligence agent capable of coherent and sustained conversation with humans.