Need basic infrastructure

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You: Hello. I'm Adam. Here to argue or just chat.

Stranger: Yo, Aden, same. Anyting in particular you'd want to debate.

You: Depends

You: Where are you from?

Stranger: Canada.

You: US

You: So as individuals we have time or money, what is the best way to lessen absolute poverty (abroad)

You: i.e., marginally

Stranger: Hm, do you mean whether it's better to invest time, or money?

You: Um, sure. I think it's more impact for me to use my income rather than volunteer

You: It's just to get the ball rolling really

Stranger: Okay, well I think it depends on what you spend your money or time on, obviously. Education has proben to be one of the most efficient ways to decrease poverty in any third world country.

You: Absolutely

You: And deworming initiatives for children allow them to do better in school

Stranger: Hm, here's something I've been considering relating to this, how AI could be used within education.

Stranger: I think that developing AI to help within education could greatly reduce costs in lowering bureaucracy

You: AI in what way?

Stranger: In the machine learning way, neural networks and the such. A good example is DeepMind's AlphaZero.

You: But isn't that just for games?

You: I still don't get how AI factors in

Stranger: Nah, not really. It's just tested in games because they're closed systems that have point systems so improvement is easy to document.

Stranger: But in theory it should work for pretty much any closed system, as long as you plug in the rules to the system.

You: Again, how does that factor into education?

Stranger: Well in theory you could vastly reduce the need for teachers to grade papers or assignments, the program could read through it and give it an automatic mark in comparison to a benchmark.

You: Um, you don't need AI for that.

You: Online quizzes already have automatic grading.

You: Are we on a tangent

You: unrelated to the developing world?

Stranger: Yeah, but those are often multiple choice or single word answer. I'm saying an entire paper could be graded efficiently.

You: I hope you realize that the developing world does not have computers in the first place

You: A primary school in Ghana I know has one.

You: But what you're suggesting is not really viable

Stranger: Yes, I do. But the internet is becoming more and more available as well as technology being produced at a more efficient rate. Of course this is a suggestion more made for once an initial infrastructure has been laid out.

You: I don't think that will happen in our lifetimes.

Stranger: Eh, that's being a bit downtrodden, no? Look at the rate in which we're able to produce things nowadays, I think the only real issue is how to make it profitable to help out the less developed areas of the world.

You: From what I know, it's realistic.

You: People going to free primary school do not have money to buy a bunch of computers

Stranger: True, that's why I said you just have to find some way to make it profitable to help out these places, one way I could think to make it profitable.

You: It's not profitable though

You: It's not a consumer good.

Stranger: I think you can design ways for it to be, for example in exchange for the assistance of helping develop education in x place, you may start a solar farm of x size here.

You: Nope, that definitely would not work

Stranger: Perhaps not, but space is a commodity that most developed countries need, especially some place like China.

You: One, that's vaguely simiar to what the US gov't tried implementing in Haiti. Two, they don't need a solar farm.

Stranger: Power generation is useful for pretty much everybody, especially if you sell it back to the community where it's located.

You: They don't need power though. They need extremely basic infrastructure like roads