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Using photos and other data collected on a wide range of Nepalese homes, Elizabeth Hausler was able to train computers to analyse photos of quake-hit buildings and then suggest whether they could be repaired safely and cost-effectively.
Using photos and other data collected on a wide range of Nepalese homes, Hausler and others were able to train computers to analyse photos of quake-hit buildings and then suggest whether they could be repaired safely and cost-effectively. AI is being used to help solve a wide range of persistent problems, but its growing application presents a range of risks- including to human rights, as technology like facial tracking becomes widespread, experts told the Skoll forum.
But the software’s ability to examine movement via mobile phones can now provide early remote diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease too, based on a user’s posture, gait, arm movement and rigidity, Nyoni said. Two years ago, he began working with the UN refugee agency on Project Jetson, aiming to predict movements of displaced people in and around Somalia, but data was so scarce they struggled to meet monthly deadlines, with consequences on the ground such as inadequate preparation of services for those uprooted, he remembered.
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