AI For Mankind is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of mobilizing the tech community to work on world challenging problems using AI and Data. We organize tech talks, workshops, and hackathons. We want to build a grassroot community of volunteers creating solutions using AI and Data to bring positive impacts to society at large.
Together we can make things happen !
AI For Mankind was founded by Wei Shung Chung as a meetup group in April 2018. It was registered as a nonprofit organization in May 2019.
AI For Mankind's Seeing the World project was selected as one of the Microsoft AI for Accessibility's grantees. Read about Seeing the World project
Our wildfire smoke detection project was also selected for Microsoft AI For Earth's grant.
- We started our system for 2022 wildfire season on May 13. Our system processes images from 175 cameras.
Checkout some of our detection notification tweets.
- Join AI For Mankind Meetup Group to receive event announcement.
- Advancing Cyberbullying Detection with Psychological Insights and Complex Media Data by Lu Cheng on April 2 2022 at 9 am Pacific Time
- Computer Vision for Wildlife Monitoring by Sara Beery on Saturday April 17 2021 at 9 am Pacific Time
- Ethical Data Labeling by Iva Gumnishka on Saturday April 17 2021 at 9 am Pacific Time
- Lets Stop Wildfires Hackathon 2.0 Information Session Sunday June 28 at 9 am Pacific Time
- Lets Annotate Wildfire Smoke Images May 30 at 10 am Pacific Time
- Lets Stop Wildfires Hackathon 2.0 to build deployable wildfire smoke detector. Register Now
- Wildfire Smoke Detection Colab Notebook. We built this wildfire smoke classification notebook as a quickstart notebook for our Lets Stop Wildfires Hackathon. However you can adapt it easily to classify other types of images.
- Covid-19 Data Exploratory Notebooks contributed by our volunteers and participants of our hackathons.
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Wildfires Smoke Detection Project to investigate and promote the use of AI Deep Learning in early wildfire smoke detection. We want to raise awareness about the crisis and rally more people/AI experts to work on this problem. We continue to promote the curation of open datasets to speed up research and development. We collaborate with HPWREN in promoting the collaboration of our volunteers from private tech with public sector in solving this wildfire crisis.
AI For Mankind had created bounding box annotated wildfire smoke images in 2019 and built a wildfire smoke detector aka "The Super Duper" using the annotated images. It has shown promising results running against wildfire images captured by HPWREN in 2020. See below.
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For 2020-02-05 fire captured by HPWREN camera hp-w-mobo-c, our detector detected the smoke 13 minutes after fire ignition.
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For 2020-03-06 fire captured by HPWREN camera mlo-n-mobo-c, our detector detected the smoke 3 minutes after fire ignition. See video below.
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For 2020-05-21 fire captured by HPWREN camera VEGMGMT ml-w-mobo-c, our detector detected the smoke 16 minutes after fire ignition.
We ran AI For Mankind's wildfire smoke detector aka "The Super Duper" against past HPWREN images of several fires, here are the promising results obtained.
- 20191006: Detected smoke ~6 mins after fire ignition (HPWREN ml w mobo c) https://youtu.be/wt1sQyRjoCI
- 20191006: Detected smoke ~7 mins after fire ignition (HPWREN lp n mobo c) https://youtu.be/dViR_XGQ8Oo
- 20191006: Detected smoke ~10 mins after fire ignition (HPWREN lp s mobo c) https://youtu.be/XVvZVnxHv4A
- 20191006: Detected smoke ~3 mins after fire ignition (HPWREN pi s mobo c) https://youtu.be/e9T_8coM20M
- 20191007: Detected smoke ~10 mins after fire ignition (HPWREN sm s mobo c) https://youtu.be/LqAxrY-Xa4w
- 20200206: Detected smoke ~4 mins after fire ignition (HPWREN ml s mobo c) https://youtu.be/Y3tal1-nk1Y
- 20200306: Detected smoke ~3 mins after fire ignition (HPWREN mlo n mobo c) https://youtu.be/X_QvjA1-Nb4
- 20200205: Detected smoke ~13 mins after fire ignition (HPWREN hp w mobo c) https://youtu.be/CcbXdcMEQvs
- 20200615: Detected smoke ~4 mins after fire ignition (HPWREN rm e mobo c) https://youtu.be/uPSkxGjUqRk
We continue to organize a series of Lets Stop Wildfires Hackathons. You can learn more below.
2020 Lets Stop Wildfires Hackathon 2.0
2019 Lets Stop Wildfires Hackathon
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Seeing the World Project to build a more accessible and navigable physical world for people who are blind or have low vision.
Take and share fruit or vegetable pictures taken via your mobile phone with us. Click here seeingtheworld.live to submit.
You can test out our fruit and veggie classifier here.
Download our curated fruit and veggie dataset.
We are proud to be selected as one of the Microsoft AI for Accessibility's grantees. Read our project blog
- Healthcare: Combat Covid-19 Pandemic Project We organize series of online hackathons to work on ideas and build useful applications to help everyone in combating Covid-19. See contributions by our participants.
Once again, thank you to all our volunteers for their dedication and contribution. If you are interested in any of the projects, please join our slack channel or email us at ai.for.mankind@gmail.com
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1st Covid-19 Online Hackathon, Saturday March 14, 2020
- Hackathon Mentor: Ivana Williams Staff Research Scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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2nd Covid-19 Online Hackathon: Work on COVID-19 Open Research Dataset, Saturday March 21, 2020
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3rd Covid-19 Online Hackathon Saturday April 4, 2020 at 10 am Pacific Time
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4th Covid-19 Online Hackathon Saturday April 18, 2020 at 10 am Pacific Time
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Special thanks to our Hackathon Mentors for providing guidances to the participants of Lets Stop Wildfires Hackathon.
- Adam Kraft Machine Learning Engineer from Google Brain
- Anna Bethke, Head of AI for Social Good for Intel
- Jianming Zhang, Senior Research Scientist from Adobe Research
- Jigar Doshi, Senior Researcher at Senior Researcher at Wadhwani AI
- Kinshuk Govil, Lead for Machine Learning based early wildfire detection system
- Tim Ball, President of Fireball International
- Vladimir Iglovikov Kaggle Grandmaster, Senior Computer Vision Engineer at Level5, Self-Driving Division, Lyft Inc.
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AI For Mankind is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 84-1750651
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- Albumentations: fast and flexible image augmentations
- FUEGO Early Fire Detection
- Deep Learning Based Large-scale Histological Tau Protein Mapping for Neuroimaging Biomarker Validation in Alzheimer's Disease]
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Robot Navigation + Human In the Loop NLP
- Robot navigation with automated reinforcement learning
- Detecting Political Narratives with Human-in-the-loop NLP
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Satellite Imagery for Humanitarian Efforts and Social Entrepreneurship Contest
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Computer Vision for Satellite Images. How to use them for social good
- Ivana Williams Staff Research Scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- Jigar Doshi Senior Researcher at Senior Researcher at Wadhwani AI
- Kinshuk Govil Machine Learning Lead for Wildfire Smoke Detection
- Vladimir Iglovikov Senior Computer Vision Engineer at Level5, Self-Driving Division, Lyft
- Maryana Alegro Machine Learning and Computer Vision Engineer
- Nirav Patel Geospatial Data Scientist & Project Manager, Space & AI/ML Portfolios at United States Department of Defense
- Jonathan Brandt Adobe Fellow and the Director of the Media Intelligence Lab at Adobe Research
- Kitty Y. M. Yeung Senior Program Manager - Quantum Computing at Microsoft
- Aleksandra Faust Deep Reinforcement Learning Researcher at Google Research with Google Brain
- Olya Gurevich Co-founder/Chief Scientist at Marvelous AI
- Adam Kraft Machine Learning Engineer at Google Brain
- Rebecca Krauthamer CEO at Quantum Thought
- Haichun Chen Manager, Content Knowledge, Data Science and Engineering at Netflix
Rachael Creager Artificial Intelligence Fellow at Insight Data Science
"I joined AI For Mankind for the CORD-19 NLP hackathon, where I am working on improving search engines and topic modeling for Covid-19 researchers. I chose this project for its usefulness as well as for the learning experience."
"It feels good to work on something bigger than yourself while learning skills you can use for the future!"
"AI For Mankind is also a great place to meet other technologists and to get exposure to different tools and ideas. The discussions during the hackathon lead me to try methods for topic modeling which I previously knew nothing about!"
Joe Tang Senior Software Engineer In Test and Treasurer of AI For Mankind
"I joined AI For Mankind in 2018 and started working on the Seeing the World project, which was initiated with a goal of helping people who are blind or have low vision. The Seeing the World project showed me the idea that technology, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), can make a difference for people in need in our society."
"Being a part of the team, I have been given the opportunity to meet many passionate volunteers with various backgrounds and skills, such as engineers, data scientists, and students. This is a truly rewarding experience."
"Although it is a non-profit organization, I see a lot of potential for it to grow into an organization that can help solve problems for our communities with the passion and skills our people bring to the table."
Kaniska Mandal Tech Lead, Search Science and Marketing Demand Optimization Team at Walmart Labs
"There is a massive demand for developing open source projects for mankind all over the world. AI For Mankind provides such a platform where knowledge-seekers, mentors, instructors and hackers can engage together for sharing knowledge and building apps for social goods."
"I believe AI For Mankind has a great vision, proven execution strategy, long-term goals and unique combination of domain expertise and AI Experience."
"As an active member I could make a direct impact by working on algorithms for detecting wild-fire. Now we have a bigger responsibility to help humanity containing the spread of Covid19."
Matt Tso Neuroscience Post Doc, University of California, Berkeley
"I joined AI For Mankind to sharpen my skills in AI and networking. And overall, I just love the idea to volunteer my skills for a good cause."
"My amateur AI/data science projects include COVID19 cases and demographic analysis, wildfire image classification and predicting bad loans from Freddie Mac data"
Amit Doda Data Scientist, Adobe India
First Place Winner of Lets Stop Wildfires Hackathon
"AI For Mankind is a great community with highly motivated and intellectual people working for the social good."
"When I came across this hackathon - Early Wildfire Smoke Detection using Deep Learning skills, I was so tempted to participate as I could see a great opportunity to use my skills and take up a problem which is so real and meaningful to solve."
"And there is nothing better than seeing your model deployed and tested on actual sites and seeing it help tackle a problem so big such as wildfires crisis. If that happens it would be doing my bit for the Environment."
Anil Berry Lead Software Engineer, Adobe, India
"My motivation for joining AI For Mankind is the collaboration, learning from each other, and to contribute in solving real world challenges using data science and machine learning."
Davies Odu Software Developer, Microsoft
"I joined AI for Mankind because I’m very excited about the economic and social advantages that AI and big data will bring to humanity how it might be leveraged with wisdom to improve the lives of ALL humans."
"AI for Mankind brings developers and enthusiasts together with a strong vision to leverage AI for specific solutions that improve the human experience and this strongly motivates me to bring in my skills and learn from like minds."
"The world is definitely changing first with Wildfires and now with COVID-19. AI For Mankind has done exceedingly great work to help find solutions to these real-world problems, and I hope to contribute to this cause and help make this world a better place. I have most recently been working on a Deep Learning project to diagnose COVID-19 using Chest X-Ray Images."
You can learn more about our awesome volunteers here.
AI For Mankind is looking for tech savvy developers to volunteer their skills. If you are web developer, mobile developer, UI/UX, data scientist/AI experts etc, please volunteer your skills and fill out this form.
Join to become one of our mentors to provide guidance and expertise to help our volunteers.
Reach out to us if you are interested in becoming our sponsors.
Your tax-deductible donation today will help support our mission.
AI For Mankind is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 84-1750651