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Re:XPrize up for Artificial Intelligence that can give a TED... by skosuri on Saturday March 22, 2014 @03:01PM (#7450344)
I think XPrize lost a lot of credibility when the pulled the Genomics X-prize because the competition was "outpaced by innovation" [1].

[1] http://genomics.xprize.org/

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Re:XPrize up for Artificial Intelligence that can give a TED... by smd4 on Saturday March 22, 2014 @03:08PM (#7450376)
I'm surprised that for a mere $10M they were willing to simultaneously torpedo the xprize brand and forever enshrine their irrelevance to actual innovation.
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