{"id":29211,"date":"2016-08-22T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T18:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/artificial-intelligence-could-help-eradicate-global-poverty"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:22:27","slug":"artificial-intelligence-could-help-eradicate-global-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/artificial-intelligence-could-help-eradicate-global-poverty","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence could help eradicate global poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-could-help-eradicate-global-poverty.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another spin on AI in how it eradicates poverty; hmmm.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Eradicating extreme poverty, measured as people living on less than $1.25 US a day, by 2030 is among the sustainable development goals adopted by <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/United-Nations\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations<\/a> member states last year.<\/p>\n<p>A team of computer scientists and satellite experts created a self-updating world map to locate poverty, said Marshall Burke, assistant professor in Stanford\u2019s Department of Earth System Science.<\/p>\n<p>It uses a computer algorithm that recognizes signs of poverty through a process called machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, he said. Results of the two-year research effort have been published in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/magazines\/panache\/artificial-intelligence-could-help-eradicate-global-poverty\/articleshow\/53785093.cms\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/magazines\/panache\/artifi...785093.cms<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another spin on AI in how it eradicates poverty; hmmm. Eradicating extreme poverty, measured as people living on less than $1.25 US a day, by 2030 is among the sustainable development goals adopted by United Nations member states last year. A team of computer scientists and satellite experts created a self-updating world map to locate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66493,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211\/revisions\/66493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}