A team at MILA has been selected as one of 12 sponsored participants in the Amazon Alexa chatbot challenge. The goal is to build a socialbot that can converse engagingly and coherently for 20 minutes. They will receive a stipend of 100 000 US$ to compete for the grand prize of up to 1.5M US$ which will be awarded in November 2017. The MILA team was selected among 100 applications from 22 countries, and is the only sponsored Canadian team in the competition.
