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posted by chromas on Monday October 29 2018, @10:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-force-for-good? dept.

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: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Monday October 29 2018, @11:41PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday October 29 2018, @11:41PM (#755427) Journal

    I for one welcome our new benevolent artificial intelligences.

    * Artilects [wikipedia.org]. Much shorter.

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