Harnessing Big Data to Improve Refugee Resettlement - Immigration Policy Lab
An IPL-designed algorithm would help countries match refugees and asylum seekers to the location where they have the best chance at finding employment.
TWB Chatbots Everyone deserves the information they need and want, when they want it, in their own language. Multilingual chatbot technology represents an innovative way to accomplish this vision. A chatbot is a computer program that simulates human conversations on messaging apps and devices. They are programmed to respond in realtime to users’ questions about […]
AI Chatbot Brains Are Going Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concerns
a physical robot arm and a virtual robot. In the virtual setting, ProgPrompt came up with plans the robot could basically execute almost all the time, and these plans succeeded at a much higher rate than any previous training system. Meanwhile the real robot, given
Black in AI is a place for sharing ideas, fostering collaborations and discussing initiatives to increase the presence of Black people in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Facebook uses big data to aid humanitarian efforts in Africa
Facebook artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have created the world's most detailed population density maps of Africa to help humanitarian relief efforts...
Machine Learning Model Doubles Accuracy of Global Landslide ‘Nowcasts’ - NASA
Every year, landslides – the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope – cause thousands of deaths, billions of dollars in damages, and disruptions to
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery projec...
US startup ditches towers for unique pyramid-mounted wind turbines
An innovative floating offshore wind turbine prototype was launched in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Instead of a single anchor tower, the approach uses a pyramid base that can also passively orient itself in the direction of the blowing wind.
The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future
The first generation of corporate design leaders are transitioning out of their executive roles at companies like IBM, McKinsey, and others. What comes next?
The sources I’ve spoken with could only recall one company that filled an executive level chief design officer role in the second half of the year—PayPal, who brought on Rachel Kobetz from Expedia, in September of 2023.
Now there is more inspection and less trust. As leaders we need to learn how to be really awesome stewards with resources. We need to defend the investment in design with total clarity. That part is new.”
Cohere’s non-profit research lab, C4AI, released the Aya model, a state-of-the-art, open source, massively multilingual, research LLM covering 101 languages – including more than 50 previously underserved languages.