Amazon launches online challenge to spur research on generalizing dialogue agents
Amazon just launched a research challenge to crack the code on generalizable dialogue agents.

Why it matters
Amazon is positioning itself as a research leader in conversational AI by open-sourcing benchmarks and creating competitive incentives for breakthrough advances in dialogue systems.
The key facts
2 to knowAmazon Alexa models achieve state-of-the-art performance on five challenge tasks
Challenge focuses on generalizing dialogue agents across different domains
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Publisher excerpt: Challenge includes benchmark models from Amazon Alexa, which achieve state-of-the-art performance on five of the challenge tasks.
