December 2020: NeurIPS Human vs. Computer Online Invitational

[ezubaric]

A few years ago, we hosted a competition between human and machine teams, and we're looking to do it again this year (with support from Google). This Medium posts explains the competition a little bit more than the official announcement (which is linked):
https://medium.com/@alexmoltzau/a-googl ... c0070015be

The part I'm working on is trying to find a strong human team to take on the computer teams. You'll need to be close to some Google office for the actual competition in December (we have a full list of possible locations in the form).

If you're interested in competing, please fill out this form, and we'll be in touch with invitations!
https://go.umd.edu/2020hcqa
(More information about dates and requirements at link)

Best,

Jordan

[Mike Bentley]

A few years ago, we hosted a competition between human and machine teams, and we're looking to do it again this year (with support from Google). This Medium posts explains the competition a little bit more than the official announcement (which is linked):
https://medium.com/@alexmoltzau/a-googl ... c0070015be

The part I'm working on is trying to find a strong human team to take on the computer teams. You'll need to be close to some Google office for the actual competition in December (we have a full list of possible locations in the form).

If you're interested in competing, please fill out this form, and we'll be in touch with invitations!
https://go.umd.edu/2020hcqa
(More information about dates and requirements at link)

Best,

Jordan

To be clear, this will be a competition on questions like the "Natural Question Train Set Examples" at https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQ ... atabrowser and not quizbowl questions per se? i.e. you'll be asking questions like "what is the story behind 5 nights at freddy's?"

[ezubaric]

This will be questions in the style of Natural Questions, indeed, rather than normal quiz bowl questions. But because the quality of questions is non-uniform, we'll make sure that the questions we select are interesting and of the sort that quiz bowlers would appreciate (e.g., more like interesting bonus parts).

[ezubaric]

Bumping this, as we now have information on prizes. Up to $500 in prizes are available, and only requires two nights!

25 Sep: sign up
Oct: Prelim
11 Dec: Final