VUB launches amai! platform to tackle social challenges

Project brings citizens and experts together to develop AI solutions for climate, health, mobility and work. Tuesday, May 4, 2021 — The imec-SMIT-VUB Knowledge Centre for Data & Society has launched the artificial intelligence project amai! The goal of the platform, developed with Scivil, the Flemish Knowledge Centre for Citizen Science, is to have experts and citizens develop AI solutions together for important social challenges. "The letters AI are in amai!, and that is no coincidence: with this ambitious project we want to involve the public in the direction that technological innovations using artificial intelligence are taking,' says Pieter Duysburgh, operational lead at the Data & Society Knowledge Centre. Every smart solution starts with a simple question. Take a spam filter as an example. This AI application was created because someone wondered if it would be possible to filter out irrelevant or unwanted emails. Amai! too initially looks for "simple? questions about important problems.