Fernanda Viégas puts people at the heart of AI

Favorite When Fernanda Viégas was in college, it took three years with three different majors before she decided she wanted to study graphic design and art history. And even then, she couldn’t have imagined the job she has today: building artificial intelligence and machine learning with fairness and transparency in

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Shared by Google AI Technology October 7, 2020

Make your everyday smarter with Jacquard

Favorite Technology is most helpful when it’s frictionless. That is why we believe that computing should power experiences through the everyday things around you—an idea we call “ambient computing.” That’s why we developed the Jacquard platform to deliver ambient computing in a familiar, natural way: By building it into things

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Shared by Google AI Technology October 5, 2020

Say goodbye to hold music

Favorite Sometimes, a phone call is the best way to get something done. We call retailers to locate missing packages, utilities to adjust our internet speeds, airlines to change our travel itineraries…the list goes on. But more often than not, we need to wait on hold during these calls—listening closely

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Shared by Google AI Technology September 30, 2020

How The Trevor Project continues to support LGBTQ youth

Favorite This September, National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month feels different. Over the past nine months, LGBTQ youth have experienced unique challenges in relation to COVID-19.The pandemic has amplified existing mental health disparities and created new problems that have impacted the daily lives of many LGBTQ youth.  As the world’s largest

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Shared by Google AI Technology September 30, 2020

Partnering with NSF on human-AI collaboration

Favorite Today, in partnership with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), we are announcing a National AI Research Institute for Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration. Google will provide $5 million in funding to support the Institute. We will also offer AI expertise, research collaborations, and Cloud support for Institute researchers and educators

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Shared by Google AI Technology September 2, 2020

A big step for flood forecasts in India and Bangladesh

Favorite For several years, the Google Flood Forecasting Initiative has been working with governments to develop systems that predict when and where flooding will occur—and keep people safe and informed.  Much of this work is centered on India, where floods are a serious risk for hundreds of millions of people.

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Shared by Google AI Technology September 1, 2020