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Google Pledges $25 Million to "AI for Social Good" Program

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

takyon writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @09:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @09:57PM (#755821)

    We can fight human trafficing, rape, low wages, drug abuse, housing shortages, identity theft, and gun runners.

    What we'll do is use AI to recognize people crossing our borders, then have it alert ICE. We'll also use it to detect people deeper in the USA who may have overstayed a visa or may be about to pop out an anchor baby, and again we alert ICE.

    Google will love this.