Wednesday, December 6, 2017

XPRIZE Whittles IBM Watson AI Teams To 59

XPRIZE, the Los Angeles nonprofit which promotes development of new technology to help solve world problems, has whittled down the number of teams competing in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, focused on using AI to world's greatest challenges. According to XPRIZE, it now has 59 teams across 14 countries competing for the $5M prize, with the top ten teams being named this week at the annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in Long Beach. XPRIZE said it had an initial 147 teams competing for the teams, who are applying artificial intelligence (AI) into a number of different areas around health and wellness, learning and human potential, civil socity, space and new frontiers, shelter and infrastructure, or energy and resources.

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