Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is using AI to create high-resolution maps of 20 countries in order for it to understand how best it can deploy internet to the 10 percent of the world that isn’t connected. As the technical side to Facebook’s Internet.org project, Connectivity Labs mostly work on things like satellites and drones. The maps will serve as a guide for the team to decide what is the best way it can get internet to the offline populations by finding out exactly where people are living, down to a 5 meter accuracy. For example, if a village was set along a riverside,…
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