One test a good of ML competition: Can it be solved by simply hiring lots of humans to make predictions without incurring significantly more costs than the priz

One test a good of ML competition: Can it be solved by simply hiring lots of humans to make predictions without incurring significantly more costs than the prize money? What value to the organizers, to society or to whatever are you imagining coming out of a free-for-all style competition? I think the organizers now imagine that the result would identifying good, generic prediction algorithms along with identifying good AI programmers capable of producing general prediction algorithms. It seems like the contest framework already has become a bit problematic through context winners just being good at contests and not otherwise achieving anything. But what are you thinking of? There are already hacking competitions btw.