Google pledges $25 million toward AI solutions for social issues
[Google] is ramping up a AI Impact Challenge that asks academia, non-profits and other organizations (whether they're AI-savvy or not) to submit proposals using AI to solve "social, humanitarian and environmental" problems. Any proposal that makes the cut will receive funding from a $25 million pool, join an accelerator program and receive consulting as well as custom support with the help of the data science non-profit DataKind. Google will pick the winners in spring 2019 with assistance from a panel of experts.
Google.org announcement. Google.org. Also at The Verge and Reuters.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Monday October 29 2018, @11:12PM (3 children)
My proposal: solve the issue of "personal data privacy and the cessation of online tracking" as one of the social problem.
You reckon it will be accepted by Google?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by legont on Monday October 29 2018, @11:58PM (1 child)
I have a very specific proposal in this space. Imagine an AI that would spend time online instead of me - clicking likes and reading news and adds - just pretending to be me but with different configurable properties - say hard working professional; liberal NY style socialite. I even have a rather clear plan how to implement one.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @10:15PM
Done and done. [reddit.com]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @12:41AM
Hey, Google is pledging $25 million, not $700 billion that they are worth today.