Posted on 01/16/2015 6:37:24 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Students from The University of Texas at Austin won $100,000 in seed funding for developing an idea for a smart phone app that would use artificial intelligence to help Texas residents get information about health care, food assistance and other social services in partnership with the United Way for Greater Austin’s 2-1-1 Navigation Center.
The Watson University Competition prize from IBM and The Entrepreneurs’ Fund was awarded after students developed a prototype app, CallScout, that would use IBM’s automated question-answering system Watson to streamline the delivery of information about social services available through 2-1-1.
With the app in place, Central Texas residents, regardless of home Internet access, could find information about community services. For example, those seeking to know more about signing up for Medicaid or CHIP health care could get information on their mobile devices about hours of operation for sign-up, bus routes and necessary paperwork to bring to appointments. They could also receive notifications on their phones about relevant deadlines.
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So if they can afford their smart phones but can’t afford food...got it. /s
What an idiot I’ve been. Time to quit my job and buy a smart phone.
Ah yes, more efficient parasitism!
Oh!, I bet I know how it works; using the location services within the smartphone to post adds in local media to sell your friggin expensive phone to someone that can actually afford it without starving their family.
The person "in need" is then a few hundred dollars richer from the sale and can look forward to monthly savings that can be used to purchase necessities.
And we’re now paying for millions of ‘free’ Obamaphones on which to run this app. It’s never been so easy to be a parasite.
btw, can this app help with the appalling difficulty of obtaining gov’t issued IDs for voters?
Mucho bueno
Oh Yes! We need to make it *EASIER* for people to get on the dole!
Come and Take It.....haaa!....same ‘cry’, different warning!!
Funny how that works, huh?
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