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#134: A 243,539-Image Tanzanian Maize Dataset, CAD 300 Million for LawZero, Wildfire Cameras at $45,000
Impact Signals #134: A 243,539-Image Tanzanian Maize Dataset, CAD 300 Million for LawZero, Wildfire Cameras at $45,000 Two Tanzanian researchers, Neema Mduma and Lilian Laizer, put 243,539 labelled maize-leaf images into the open record this week, a set roughly ten times larger than the Tanzanian maize data that existed before it. Canada and Germany jointly committed up to CAD 300 million to LawZero, the non-profit Yoshua Bengio founded to build AI oversight tools outside the commercial race. In Teton County, Wyoming, a fire department that serves 23,000 people switched on public live feeds…
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