The Conversation: How AI helped deliver cash aid to many of the poorest people in Togo

The Conversation: How AI helped deliver cash aid to many of the poorest people in Togo. “The simple idea behind this approach, as we explained in the journal Nature on March 16, 2022, is that wealthy people use phones differently from poor people. Their phone calls and text messages follow different patterns, and they use different data plans, for example. Machine learning algorithms – which are fancy tools for pattern recognition – can be trained to recognize those differences and infer whether a given mobile subscriber is wealthy or poor.”