{"id":280,"date":"2018-10-29T14:44:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2018-11-19T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T22:49:30","slug":"ai-impact-challenge-from-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/ai-impact-challenge-from-google\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Impact Challenge from Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google as part of its \u2018AI for Social Good\u2019 initiative announced \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ai.google\/social-good\/impact-challenge\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI Impact Challenge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019, calling all social-entrepreneurs, academics and problem solvers to propose on how they would use AI to help global social, humanitarian and environmental problems. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can submit the applications till Jan 22, 2019. Google plans to award up to $25 Million dollars. Great thing is that you are not expected to be an AI expert and will provide needed AI help once your idea\/solution wins the challenge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the inspiration, here are some of the problems that Google has applied (or applying) AI:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Predicting wildfires or forecasting floods<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Retinal Imagery for predicting cardiac events<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detect deforestation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Predict the newborn\u2019s risk of birth asphyxia by analyzing sound of baby\u2019s cry<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good luck to all the Pieneers! As always, know of anyone or any startup working on this, please let me know, I will update this post.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Image Credit: Thanks to \u00a0xresch via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pixabay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Google as part of its \u2018AI for Social Good\u2019 initiative announced \u2018AI Impact Challenge\u2019, calling all social-entrepreneurs, academics and problem solvers to propose on how they would use AI to help global social, humanitarian and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/ai-impact-challenge-from-google\/\" title=\"AI Impact Challenge from Google\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[81,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-competitions","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-societal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}