2017

USC: Engineering a Better World

June 29, 2017

Top researchers gather at USC this summer to work towards using AI to improve the world.

By Rheagan Rizio

Suicide prevention among college students. Poaching prevention to conserve wildlife populations in the national parks of developing nations. Substance abuse and HIV prevention in the homeless youth population.

These are just a few of the topics that will be researched this summer in the CAIS (Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society) Summer Fellowship Program, which explores...

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The Front Row, 2U: Data for Good

June 26, 2017

As our lives become more and more digital, we hear a lot about the dangers of big data, data leaks, loss of privacy, security etc. The flipside is that data can also be harnessed for social good, and applied to make progress in justice, mental and public health, even human trafficking. In this week’s episode of The Front Row we explore how people are using data — for good.

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My Social Good News: Artificial Intelligence For The Greater Good? USC Brings In Top AI And Social Work Scholars To Explore Solutions

June 7, 2017

By Api Podder

USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society Hosts First AI and Social Work Fellows Program; Problems Studied to Include Suicide Prevention; Resettlement of Refugees; Wildlife Conservation

Press Release – LOS ANGELES – June 6, 2017 – The USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS)—a joint venture of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and USC Viterbi School of Engineering—will host its first Visiting Fellows Program this summer focused on employing AI to help solve complex societal problems...

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xinhuanet.com: Feature: from chat to intellectual - chat robot "evolution"

May 26, 2017

 

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 26th feature: from chat to intellectual -

chat robot "evolution"

Xinhua News Agency reporter Peng Qian

Now want to find a robot chat is no longer difficult, from the small ice, small

Na such a Meng sister, and then to the nonsense little yellow chicken, or like the

old Longquan Temple "leisure two" machine monk, you can always find their

favorite Of that one.

However, with a variety of chat robots have sprung up, people are demanding

more and more,...

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