{"id":56909,"date":"2018-05-22T00:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T00:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56909"},"modified":"2018-05-22T00:59:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T00:59:52","slug":"microsoft-pledges-25-million-to-development-of-ai-that-makes-life-easier-for-the-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/05\/22\/microsoft-pledges-25-million-to-development-of-ai-that-makes-life-easier-for-the-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft pledges $25 million to development of AI that makes life easier for the disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Microsoft has announced that it will invest $25 million to develop technology that will make life easier for disabled people. The company revealed its\u00a0\u201cAI For Accessibility\u201d initiative during the annual developer conference in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy innovating for people with disabilities, we are innovating for us all,\u201d said Microsoft President Brad Smith about the program. \u201cBy ensuring that technology fulfills its promise to address the broadest societal needs, we can empower everyone \u2014 not just individuals with disabilities \u2014 to achieve more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The initiative takes special interest in specifically harnessing AI technology to help the disabled, similarly to how it is utilized in real-time text-to-speech programs and predictive-text capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Read full news here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/microsoft-is-spending-25-million-on-making-life-better-for-disabled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/microsoft-is-spending-25-million-on-making-life-better-for-disabled\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Microsoft has announced that it will invest $25 million to develop technology that will make life easier for disabled people. The company revealed its\u00a0\u201cAI For Accessibility\u201d initiative during the annual developer conference in Seattle. \u201cBy innovating for people with disabilities, we are innovating for us all,\u201d said Microsoft President Brad Smith about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}