Chris caught up with Jennifer Marsman, Principal Engineer on the AI for Earth team at Microsoft, right before her speech at Applied Machine Learning Days 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. She relayed how the team came into being, what they do, and some of the good deeds they have done for Mother Earth. They are giving away $50 million (US) in grants over five years! It was another excellent example of AI for good!
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Featuring:Jennifer Marsman – GitHub, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
Jennifer Marsman’s blog
AI for Earth
Project Premonition (mosquitos/genomics)
FarmBeats (agriculture)
Wildbook (recognizing individual animals) #1
Wildbook (recognizing individual animals) #2
Repository of data sets
Microsoft Green Twitter

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