Gates Foundation to commit $1 billion to expand access to AI

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The Gates Foundation plans to commit at least $1 billion over two years to expand access to artificial intelligence.

About 40% of the funds will be allocated to projects in the fields of education and healthcare, 10% each to agriculture and the development of digital infrastructure.

More than 90% of the data used to train the first large language models came from English-language sources, so the foundation believes it is important for AI systems to work in all languages.

WASHINGTON, September 15 - RIA Novosti. Bill Gates' Gates Foundation plans to commit at least $1 billion over two years to expand access to artificial intelligence so that new technologies can help narrow the gap between rich and poor, the organization said in its annual report.

About 40% of the funds will be allocated to projects in the field of education, another 40% to healthcare. 10% of the funding will go to agriculture and the development of digital infrastructure, including the creation of data sets in languages ​​that AI systems do not yet understand.

The foundation believes that measures need to be taken now to ensure that artificial intelligence helps reduce the gap between rich and poor, rather than widen it.