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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: 2) by captain_nifty on Tuesday October 30 2018, @04:35PM (1 child)
I can not think of any social problem, that is not quantitatively improved by reducing the number of humans.
Less humans = Less problems, therefore -> kill all humans.
Seriously for supposedly smart people, they are being incredibly dumb, this is how you build skynet!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @10:14AM
We need skynet to protect our borders! Besides computers don't make mistakes.