From accessibility to health, to the control of the territory in a climate emergency key, Google at the Inventors event unveils the applications and updates of its platforms that exploit artificial intelligence. During the days of the Cop26 in Glasgow, Big G explains that his AI system supports the protection of the territory, in particular the prevention in case of floods. To date, the Flood Hub portal covers more than 360 million people living in India and Bangladesh, with the aim of sending real-time notifications on rainfall and flood-related risk. Based on Google Maps cartography, it displays data and information on community and village conditions, making the expected water level visually clear, for example in relation to an individual's height."Our work is in close contact with local teams and volunteers. The teams have monitoring centers and procedures for disseminating alerts," explains the company.
Another area of application of Google's AI is accessibility. Here comes Project Relate a new application for Android, which aims to help people with speech problems. It does this through three main functions: Listen, Repeat and Assistant. Through 'Listen', the app transcribes the speech of a user, with language difficulties, so as to make it easier to copy and paste text into other apps, or let people read what is said. 'Repeat' reproduces speech through a synthesized but clear voice to overcome any barriers during the dialogue, while 'Assistant is an optimized version of Google Assistant, similar to the traditional one but developed specifically to adapt to everyone's patterns and language inflections . In the realization of theapp the contribution of those who will directly benefit from its use was fundamental, such as Aubrie Lee, brand manager of the American giant, suffering from muscular dystrophy. "I'm used to looking on people's faces when they can't understand what I said. Project Relate can make the difference between feeling confused and understanding phrases and terms used in the middle of a conversation."
Furthermore, in the field of medicine, Google has long started a collaboration between the DeepMind division, the Cancer Research UK Imperial Center, Northwestern University and the Royal Surrey County Hospital, to analyze the benefits deriving from the use of AI algorithms in diagnosis. of breast cancer. According to the team, the technology can identify the presence of cancer in mammograms with greater accuracy than traditional methods. As a next step, DeepMind's algorithm will 'reread' some 50,000 patient exams from the UK's St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, to complement the work of radiologists. And in the future, intelligence could be used at full capacity to speed up and optimize investigation results.
Google also confirmed the opening of its first Quantum AI campus in Santa Barbara, California.
Inside, there will be a 'quantum' data center, research laboratories and a factory for the production of dedicated chips.