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Title: Gates Funds $1 Million AI Alzheimer's Prize

Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/08/19/1...

Bill Gates is funding a $1 million competition to spur the use of AI to find
innovative treatments for Alzheimer's disease, the latest effort to deploy
the promising technology to find cures for humanity's toughest illnesses.
From a report: The Alzheimer's Insights AI prize will be awarded to the team
that comes up with the most original way to program AI-powered agents that
are "capable of independent planning, reasoning, and action to accelerate
breakthrough discoveries from existing Alzheimer's data." A The winning tool
will be released for free on the Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative's cloud
"workbench" to be used by scientists globally, the organisation said on
Tuesday. The prize is being financed by Gates Ventures, the family office of
the billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder.

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