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AI for Social Good: Addressing the Need for Women in Tech
Thirty undergraduate women from across Canada were given the opportunity to use artificial intelligence to address a social issue of their choice during the second annual AI for Social Good Lab initiative in Montreal, Canada.
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The second annual AI for Social Good Lab initiative, held in May in Montreal, Canada, to increase gender diversity in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), gave 30 undergraduate women from across Canada the opportunity to use AI to address a social issue of their choice.
The six-week lab was initiated by the OSMO Foundation, McGill University's Reasoning and Learning Laboratory, and the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, and was co-organized with DeepMind.
The program included two weeks of lectures, an open hackathon, and a week of industry workshops, after which the participants presented eight projects at the AIForGood closing event. The final projects included a variety of Web, Android, and iOS applications.
Summer Lab diversity coordinator Jihane Lamouri hopes having more women in the industry will help pinpoint gender bias in AI.
From The McGill Tribune
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