Content tagged with AI for Good

“If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became the truth.” – George Orwell, 1984

ASUS and healthcare startup Olive look to deploy AI coding assistant in over 700 US hospitals

News
9/3/2021

Miraico can help medical professionals analyze medical terminology in clinical records

Bristol Myers Squibb to license Exscientia immunological drug candidate

News
8/18/2021

The startup will receive a $20m option exercise fee – with tiered royalties on any product sales

ClosedLoop raises $34m in Series B funding to improve patient care using data

News
8/18/2021

Former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano among new investors

Cutting carbon with AI: Emitwise CEO on making sustainability profitable

Analysis
7/22/2021

AI and data might bring long-term climate targets that little bit closer

Industrial AI Summit: Hitachi is using AI and IoT to decarbonize industrial vehicle fleets

News
6/29/2021

Decarbonizing bus fleets alone would save 101m tons of CO2 – the equivalent of running 21,000 wind turbines for a year

AI-based system to fight malaria wins $3 million in XPRIZE competition

News
6/28/2021

Runners-up include digital mental health company and platform that monitors human trafficking

Dashcams for good: AI and car cameras are helping fix potholes

News
6/25/2021

Pilot data collection projects are running in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Dallas

Climate intelligence firm Cervest secures $30 million in Series A funding

News
5/21/2021

To help organizations “protect their assets and navigate toward a more resilient future”

China’s Sogou unveils AI-based news anchor that communicates in sign language

News
5/19/2021

Says the system can immediately generate sign language broadcast video with 85% accuracy rate

Giving voice to the voiceless: Voiceitt CEO explains how AI can help people with speech impairments

Analysis
5/18/2021

Natural language tech could improve the quality of life for people with a variety of health conditions – but plenty of work remains to be done

Google launches Woolaroo, a photo-translation app for dying languages

News
5/6/2021

Platform can provide real-time audio and visual pronunciations of names of objects in Maori, Yugambeh, and Calabrian Greek, among others

Genentech and Stanford use open source AI to reduce bias in clinical trials

News
4/12/2021

A study published in Nature details how Trial Pathfinder was used to address the underrepresentation of minorities in cancer research

Intel will allow gamers to choose how many toxic slurs they want to hear

News
4/8/2021

What kind of abuse do you want a child to scream at you?

AI-generated album brings back dead musicians of The 27 Club

News
4/7/2021

In order to raise awareness of the mental health crisis in the music industry

Moment AI looks to develop in-car system focused on driver health

News
3/17/2021

The prototype hopes to prevent accidents caused by events like seizures, strokes, and sudden cardiac arrest

Spanish team wins AI vs. COVID Xprize

News
3/12/2021

$500k split between two teams – and the results made available to policymakers

Google to remove gender labels from image recognition tool

News
2/25/2021

An early example of a feature clashing with the company’s ethical AI principles

Bearing.ai comes out of stealth to optimize the shipping industry

News
2/18/2021

Lands large customers at sea

Bengio: Open science and international cooperation key to AI for good

Analysis
2/18/2021

Father of deep learning talks politics

Dendra Systems’ ‘sky tractors’ rely on computer vision to restore degraded land

News
2/10/2021

Aerial seeding drones can plant up to 300,000 trees a day

RNIB and conversational AI vendor Alana partner on tools for people with sight loss

News
2/8/2021

The project aims to support more than two million people in the UK

World Economic Forum launches foundation for ethical AI

News
2/1/2021

While the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation pumps $40m into AI for good

Increasing workforce diversity in AI and data science

Partner Perspectives
1/19/2021

Having started with our first cohort of students in September, the Teesside postgraduate conversion programs will develop graduates with the ability to address the profound professional, ethical, security and social implications of future AI and data science technologies