AI is targeting some of the world’s biggest problems: homelessness, terrorism, and extinction
Making AI models at the University of Southern California (USC) Center for AI in Society does not involve a clean, sorted dataset. Sometimes it means interviewing homeless youth in Los Angeles to map human social networks. Sometimes it involves going to Uganda for better conservation of endangered species. “With AI, we are able to reach 70 percent of the youth population in the pilot, compared to…