Up for grabs! $5m for best info on AI

XPRIZE CEO and founder Peter Diamandis announced at the TED2016 event in Vancouver a new $5 million prize to anyone who develops an innovative method of collaborating with artificial intelligence to solve Earth’s significant challenges.

“We at XPRIZE have been interested in artificial intelligence for a while now, one of the key disruptive technologies that we believe may be the best tool that humanity will be able to access in order to solve some of the world’s grand challenges,” XPRIZE prize designer Stephanie Wander tells Digital Trends.

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During the announcement, Diamandis (flanked by IBM Watson general manager David Kenny) cited a displeasure with the way advanced AI constantly gets portrayed as a danger to humanity, saying he’s “sick and tired of the dystopian conversation.”
Because of this, XPRIZE wants to annually task bright young minds across the globe with developing their own AI-related partnerships intended to greatly advance the culture of AI.
Be it the creation of a cognitive technology to fight climate change, improve health care, or otherwise, XPRIZE plans to let each group select their own preferred area of research.

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