Those of you who want to make money doing AGI, besides the Loebner prize and the Hutter prize, there is now the Netflix prize: http://www.netflixprize.com
This prize is a cool Million Dollars. It is for a movie-rating prediction algorithm that betters theirs by only 10%. Here's a brief description from the rules: Upon registration, Participants may access the Contest training data and qualifying test sets. The training data set consists of more than 100 million ratings from over 480 thousand randomly-chosen, anonymous customers on nearly 18 thousand movie titles. The data were collected between October, 1998 and December, 2005 and reflect the distribution of all ratings received by Netflix during this period. The ratings are on a scale from 1 to 5 (integral) stars. To protect customer privacy, all personal information identifying individual customers has been removed and all customer ids have been replaced by randomly-assigned ids. The date of each rating and the title and year of release for each movie are provided. No other customer or movie information is provided. No other data were employed to compute Cinematch’s accuracy values used in this Contest. In addition to the training data set, a qualifying test set is provided containing over 2.8 million customer/movie id pairs with rating dates but with the ratings withheld. These pairs were selected from the most recent ratings from a subset of the same customers in the training data set, over a subset of the same movies. Eligible algorithms must provide predictions for all the withheld ratings for each customer/movie id pair in the qualifying set. Each year until the prize is won, they'll award $50K to the best entry so far. Josh ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
