Competitions and prizes in artificial intelligence

There are a number of competitions and prizes to promote research 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 prize is $100,000.

The Human-Competitive Award is an annual challenge started in 2004 to reward results "competitive with the work of creative and inventive humans". The prize is $10,000. Entries are required to use evolutionary computing.

The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is a biannual award given at the IJCAI conference to researcher in artificial intelligence as a recognition of excellence of their career.

The 2011 Federal Virtual World Challenge advertised by The White House and sponsored by the US Army held a competition offering a total of $52,000 USD in cash prize awards for general artificial intelligence applications, including "adaptive learning systems, intelligent conversational bots, adaptive behavior (objects or processes)" and more.

The Machine Intelligence Prize is awarded annually by the British Computer Society for progress towards machine intelligence.

The Kaggle - "the world's largest community of data scientists compete to solve most valuable problems".

The General AI Challenge is an international competition designed to tackle crucial research problems in human-level AI development. It is launched in 2017 by a Czech-based company GoodAI in partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA.

The Loebner prize is an annual competition to determine the best Turing test competitors. The winner is the computer system that, in the judges' opinions, demonstrates the "most human" conversational behaviour, they have an additional prize for a system that in their opinion passes a Turing test. This second prize has not yet been awarded.

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