Facebook Outlines Focus and Emphasis on Artificial Intelligence, Announces New Initiatives For Creative Ideas

Facebook has w me official a host of initiatives dedicated to delivering social and inclusive growth by via harnessing power of emerging techlogies led by Artificial Intelligence (AI). se anuncements were me at Facebook's inaugural AI for India Summit held in Bengaluru that focused on AI for Social Good. This summit was attended by AI thought-leers, start-ups, NGOs, and developer community.

In this summit, Facebook also threw light on multiple techlogy-driven next-gen aspects such as to how AI can play a crucial role in times of crisis and cited its efforts during 2018 Kerala Floods when in partnership with Seeds India, an NGO, it quickly prepared disaster maps for state.

maps use aggregated and de-identified Facebook data to track people’s movement and were able to demarcate between flood-hit and safe zones. This information helped Seeds and or humanitarian organizations appropriately time ir early recovery and relief operations.

“At Facebook we are also committed to growing local AI ecosystem, which can be achieved by providing support to start-ups, to student community, and by ensuring diversity within ecosystem itself. That's thought behind our key anuncements today around AI for India Accelerator, trainings and scholarships for students and developers, and 'Women in AI' hackathons,” stated Ajit Mohan who is Vice-President and Managing Director at Facebook India.

Also highlighting  AI for furring societal causes Facebook spoke about its Blood Donation tool, which helps connect blood banks and hospitals to blood dors who have registered mselves on platform. Facebook said that to date, more than 35 million people have signed up to be dors globally. In order to understand its impact, Facebook partnered with blood banks in India and Brazil to conduct in-person surveys and found that one in five people said that Facebook influenced ir decision to donate blood.

Along with AI-driven initiatives, Facebook also threw light on below initiatives that it has undertaken to furr “next-gen ideas”:

• India Invation Accelerator: Facebook anunced India Invation Accelerator program with a focus on AI for Social Good. Under this program Facebook will extend mentorship and support to promising startups that are leveraging AI to dress gaps within high social impact areas of women safety, agriculture, education, healthcare, climate change, and resilient cities, among many ors.
   
• 100 Scholarships for students and developers: Facebook also anunced 100 scholarships for students and developers focused on nurturing ir ideas for utilizing AI for social good. scholarships will enable students to gain access to vanced courses on Deep Learning.
   
• Women in AI Hackathons: Determined to encour diversity within ecosystem, Facebook has come out with AI Hackathons that are aimed at encouraging women developers and women-led startups focused on AI. winners will be provided courses on AI and ML by professors of Indian Institute of Techlogy (IIT), Mras.
   
• AI Trainings: Under Facebook's recently anunced, Facebook Hubs program, it will conduct extensive, application-based AI trainings with a host of startups across 20 locations in India. Aimed at helping startups and entrepreneurs scale ir businesses, Facebook Hubs will extend support for community by hosting mentor hours and conducting training and workshops.

“ AI for India Summit is our first step in what we hope to be a fruitful journey of applying AI to solve India specific needs. We've raised awareness for Facebook's AI vision and strategy," stated Raghavan Srinivasan who is Product Director for Facebook AI said

This day-long summit held on 26 March also witnessed discussions on how AI could be utilized to make vancements in healthcare, education, agriculture, and crisis/disaster mitigation in line with National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence that was outlined by NITI Aayog last year. summit was attended by Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, and members from acemia, leing think-tanks, NGOs, students, and developer community.

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