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Wild Card Entrants Join IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition
The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE has announced three additional teams for its multiyear contest, which is intended to encourage development of artificial intelligence tools to "solve societal grand challenges." The contestants from the Wild Card round join 59 teams that have advanced to Round 2.
The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE is different from other competitions in that the participants identify the problems they want to solve rather than the organizers.
"The idea really is that we have an open competition—we're not asking people to solve a given problem," says Amir Banifatemi, new frontiers group lead at XPRIZE. "We've given the crowd out there a way to frame grand challenges with AI."
The Wild Card rounds are a way for the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE to include the latest research in rapidly evolving technologies. Three teams are joining the competition.
Netherlands-based OPTOSS AI is working on a platform that combines data from ground stations and satellites with crowdsourced data to improve disaster notifications.
U.S.-based Mt. Cleverest plans to combine natural language processing and crowdsourced content to develop a free, "self-improving" online textbook to "to improve education outcomes at a global scale," according to the nonprofit XPRIZE organization.
Israel-based Zzapp Malaria plans to apply AI in the fight against malaria, which still infected 200 million people and killed more than 400,000 in Africa just last year.
"These three Wild Card teams give incremental value to existing teams," Banifatemi says. "Regardless of the grand prize winner [to be announced in April 2020], all of them are creating sparks."
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