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Aug 18, 2016

Artificial intelligence can find, map poverty, researchers say

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability

The method would assist governments and charities trying to fight poverty but lacking precise and reliable information on where poor people are living and what they need, the researchers based at Stanford University in California said.

Eradicating extreme poverty, measured as people living on less than $1.25 U.S. a day, by 2030 is among the sustainable development goals adopted by United Nations member states last year.

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