Google Pledges $15M to Help Developing Countries Adopt AI, Tackling Infrastructure Gaps and Unemployment

• New report "AI Sprinters" provides roadmap for developing countries to benefit from AI, including $15M Google commitment for AI skills training • AI can provide solutions to challenges in developing countries like poor infrastructure, unemployment, uneven access to services • Report has 4 recommendations adopt cloud computing, support people with AI skills training, improve data systems, support AI-friendly regulations
• Calls for governments and agencies to make AI central in national development plans and commit funding • Notes AI's potential to close digital divide and transform economies like past innovations, benefitting millions