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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.

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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.

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  1. Amazon Alexa models achieve state-of-the-art performance on five challenge tasks

  2. 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.
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