Archives for AI for good

03 Feb

Council Post: Role of AI in creating inclusive products & solutions

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We cannot assume a foregone conclusion that Artificial Intelligence will create a more equitable and inclusive society – it will take intentional and sustained focus and effort. In the case of AI, this focus and effort is even more important because AI is a ‘General-Purpose Technology’, with the potential for broad-based impact on people, society, and entire economies.
26 May

Yes, A(I) Can!

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“Humans respond to incentives too, but they are also influenced by nudges.” Richard Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge (2008) Human beings are surrounded by influences that tend to alter their behaviours. This is what Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s research on Nudge Theory is essentially about. The nudges here refer to how choices are…

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26 Jan

How An ML Model To Predict Psychosis Is Changing Mental Health Landscape

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Recently, a team of European scientists, led by researchers at the Max Planck University, has developed a machine-learning model to predict psychosis in patients in clinically high-risk states. The study found that psychosis transitions could be predicted in a broader risk spectrum by sequentially integrating machine learning models and psychiatric assessments of clinical and biological…

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29 Nov

How This AI Firm Is Helping Radiologists Detect 20-different Pathologies With More Accuracy

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India faces a drastic shortage of radiologists with just one radiologist available for 100,000 people living in the country. In comparison, this ratio is one to 10,000 in the US. With such a shortage of qualified professionals in the field, radiologists tend to see hundreds of X-rays in a day making the process error-prone. DeepTek,…

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17 Jul

5 Times When AI Was Used For Social Good

While artificial intelligence has found a lot of use cases in many industries, another area that is witnessing a lot of traction is for Social Good. Many companies and organisations are either collaborating with not-for-profit organisations or are developing solutions that may help communities and society in general by integrating AI.  AI is solving some…

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09 Jun

Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Makes High-Resolution Maps Possible For Humanitarian Aid

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According to The Overseas Development Institute, a London-based research establishment, whose findings were released in April 2009 in the paper “Providing aid in insecure environments:2009 Update”, the most lethal year in the history of humanitarianism was 2008, in which 122 aid workers were murdered and 260 assaulted. As much as the underprivileged and unfortunate parts…

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28 May

Top 5 Tools Data Scientists Can Use To Mitigate Biases In Algorithms

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As much as coding is important for building an efficient artificial intelligence and machine learning system, it is equally important to oversee that the algorithms and models are free of any biases. Erroneous assumptions can lead to faulty outcomes and can often land organisations or solutions provider in great trouble. The situation could arise due…

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