KUALA LUMPUR, 10 October 2024 – Malaysian students were among the global prize winners at Intel’s fourth annual AI Global Impact Festival, a press release from Intel Malaysia said today, adding that this recognition marked the country’s growing influence in AI innovation on the world stage.
This year’s theme, ‘Bringing AI Everywhere for Everyone,’ aimed at promoting AI that is inclusive, equitable, and accessible, saw participants from 25 countries who were judged on the social impact of their projects, their alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals, responsible and innovative AI developments, and the creative use of Intel technologies.
The Malaysian students came up with innovative projects addressing wastage, dementia and child allergies.
The following students including the Malaysians were named Global Prize winners at the Festival:
13- to 17-year-old age group winners:
1. AI Storage Sentinel, Malaysia / Chong Yao Ong, Zi Xuan Mok: AI Storage Sentinel is an AI-powered cabinet that uses cameras and machine learning algorithms to detect and record item locations, helping users – including dementia patients – keep track of their belongings. The application also holds the potential to prevent food wastage and inventory loss for homes and businesses.
2. AUDEMY, U.S. / Crystal Yang: Audemy is a collection of audio-based games for blind students, powered by text-to-speech and speech recognition Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. This conversational interface game platform will have a global and long-term impact in transforming education for blind students everywhere.
3. CMA (Comprehensive Medical Assist), Poland / Tomasz Kozłowski, Wojciech Czubak, Zofia Remi: CMA is an AI-based solution powered by Intel software and hardware designed to help doctors diagnose and manage patients. Integrating CMA into healthcare systems stands to improve health outcomes on a global scale.
AI for Accessibility Award Winners:
1. PALS (Pediatric Allergy Life Saver), Malaysia / Iris Yan Ning: PALS assists parents and caretakers in managing children’s allergies safely, through AI-powered symmetric semantic search of allergy symptoms using NLP and an AI allergen detector. It includes a digital allergy-driven information card and a classroom feature to help childcare centers manage allergy information with an AI-safe meal generator.
2. DysTherapy (AI-based Customizable Dyslexia Education Application), Turkey / Arda Gökalp Batmaz, Ağa Saltıkalp, Efe Arda Ulun: DysTherapy provides personalized education for individuals with dyslexia through an AI-powered mobile application that produces and offers the content needed by each child using NLP, computer vision, generative AI and classification methodologies.
3. Ishaara, India / Tanisha Kaur, Yatharth Wazir, Yashkumar Dubey: Ishaara is an AI-powered platform for translating text, speech, and Indian Sign Language (ISL) across English and 12 Indian regional languages to enhance inclusion, improve accessibility and preserve ISL as a cultural heritage.
The festival is part of Intel’s commitment to using tech as a force for good, underscoring its aim to make technology fully inclusive and responsible, the press release said.
“The evolution and implementation of AI has the potential to advance accessibility, inclusion, and sustainability solutions to improve the lives of every person on the planet. I am inspired by these young technologists who understand and embrace AI as they lead the next generation of innovators working to uncover new opportunities that will drive positive global change. With these young minds at the forefront of future AI research and development, the potential impact of AI for good is limitless,” said Dawn Jones, vice president of Corporate Social Impact (CSI) and president, Intel Foundation
In Malaysia, Intel drives a wide range of programs for empowering students, professionals, citizens, and leaders to actively participate in and benefit from a digital economy.
Intel collaborates with MyDIGITAL Corporation to bring AI untuk Rakyat (“AI for Citizens”) program to Malaysians to build AI awareness and understanding. Over one million participants have accessed the program since its official launch by the Prime Minister of Malaysia in January 2024.
Over 500 students trained under the AI For Youth program launched in collaboration with CREST (Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science & Technology Center) in 2021. As part of the initiative, Intel also collaborated with the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia (KKMM) and the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation to conduct the ‘Building Digital Readiness’ program in 2022 and 2023 respectively.
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