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Google.org , Google ’s good-hearted wing , is launch a new program to help fund nonprofit developing tech that leverages productive AI .
Called Google.org Accelerator : Generative AI , the programme is to be fund by $ 20 million in grants and include 21 nonprofit to start , include Quill.org , a company creating AI - powered tools for student writing feedback , and World Bank , which is building a generative AI app to make exploitation inquiry more accessible .
In addition to financial support , nonprofit in the six - month accelerator platform will get access to expert grooming , workshops , mentor and direction from an “ AI coach . ” And , through Google.org ’s fellowship program , teams of Google employees will work out with three of the nonprofits — Tarjimly , Benefits Data Trust and mRelief — full - time for up to six months to help launch their purport generative AI shaft .
Tarjimly aims to expend AI to translate languages for refugee , while Benefits Data Trust is tip AI to create assistants that tolerate caseworkers in helping low - income applicants enroll in public benefits . mRelief , meanwhile , is designing a tool to streamline the U.S. SNAP welfare covering process .
“ Generative AI can help social wallop teams be more productive , creative and effective in do their communities , ” Annie Lewin , conductor of global protagonism at Google.org , said in ablog post . “ Google.org support recipient report that AI helps them attain their goals in one third of the fourth dimension at nearly half the cost . ”
harmonize to a PwrdBysurvey , 73 % of nonprofits believe AI innovation aligns with their missions and 75 % believe AI make their lives well-off , particularly in region like conferrer categorization , routine back - office tasks and “ mission - drive ” initiatives . But there remain significant barrier for nonprofit looking to build up their own AI solutions or adopt third - party Cartesian product — principally cost , resources and time .
In the blog position , Lewin cites a Google.orgsurveythat similarly determine that , while four in five not-for-profit think generative AI may be applicable to their work , nearly one-half presently are n’t using the tech as a result of a range of home and outside roadblocks . “ [ These nonprofits ] cite a lack of tools , awareness , training and financial backing as the biggest barriers to adoption , ” she say .
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Encouragingly , the number of nonprofit AI - focused startups is commence to click up .
non-profit-making atom smasher Fast Forward say that this twelvemonth , more than a third of applicants for its previous class were AI companies . And Crunchbasereportsthat , more broadly speaking , 12 of nonprofit organisation across the earth are dedicating work around ethical advance to AI , like AI ethic lab AlgorithmWatch , practical reading clinic JoyEducation and conservation advocacy mathematical group Earth05 .
