Competitions and prizes in artificial intelligence
The David E. Rumelhart Prize is an annual award for making a "significant contemporary contribution to the theoretical foundations of human cognition".
The Human-Competitive Award[1] is an annual challenge started in 2004 to reward results "competitive with the work of creative and inventive humans".
The 2011 Federal Virtual World Challenge, advertised by The White House[3] and sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Simulation and Training Technology Center,[3][4][5] held a competition offering a total of US$52,000 in cash prize awards for general artificial intelligence applications, including "adaptive learning systems, intelligent conversational bots, adaptive behavior (objects or processes)" and more.
[7] The Kaggle – "the world's largest community of data scientists compete to solve most valuable problems".
The International Aerial Robotics Competition is a long-running event begun in 1991 to advance the state of the art in fully autonomous air vehicles.
Key to this event is the creation of flying robots which must complete complex missions without any human intervention.
The DARPA Grand Challenge is a series of competitions to promote driverless car technology, aimed at a congressional mandate stating that by 2015 one-third of the operational ground combat vehicles of the US Armed Forces should be unmanned.
[8] While the first race had no winner, the second awarded a $2 million prize for the autonomous navigation of a hundred-mile trail, using GPS, computers and a sophisticated array of sensors.
In November 2010 the US Armed Forces extended the competition with the $1.6 million prize Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge to consider cooperation between multiple vehicles in a simulated-combat situation.
The Pittsburgh Brain Activity Interpretation Competition[11] will reward analysis of fMRI data "to predict what individuals perceive and how they act and feel in a novel Virtual Reality world involving searching for and collecting objects, interpreting changing instructions, and avoiding a threatening dog."
The competition was part of the Alan Turing Centenary Conference in 2012, with total prizes of 9000 GBP given by Google.
[citation needed] The Eternity II challenge was a constraint satisfaction problem very similar to the Tetravex game.
This area of study can be seen as an approximation of General Artificial Intelligence, with very little room for game dependent heuristics.
[27] As a result, the Arimaa Challenge was declared over and David Wu received the prize of $12,000 ($2,000 being offered by third-parties for 2015's championship).
2K Australia is offering a prize worth A$10,000 to develop a game-playing bot that plays a first-person shooter video game which can convince a panel of judges that it is a human player.
It is an international artificial intelligence programming contest, where users continuously submit the actions their soccer teams will take in each time step, in simple high level C# code.
