{"id":657901,"date":"2026-10-26T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657901\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:38:14","slug":"polar-peaks-googles-new-ai-quest-for-brain-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657901\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Peaks: Google\u2019s new AI quest for brain mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"7k2s9\">Today, we\u2019re launching \u201cPolar Peaks\u201d, our third quest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.google\/ai-quests\/intl\/en_us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI Quests<\/a> series, created by Google Research and the <a href=\"https:\/\/acceleratelearning.stanford.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford Accelerator for Learning<\/a> to teach students <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products-and-platforms\/products\/education\/ai-quests\/%5C\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">how AI works and how to use it responsibly.<\/a> AI Quests invites students ages 11 to 14 to step into the shoes of Google researchers to tackle some of humanity\u2019s biggest challenges.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"c1pd3\">More than 400,000 quests have been completed to date, localized to 10 languages. Alongside the new quest, we\u2019re also releasing training modules for teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Polar Peaks: A journey to map the human brain<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ajv7l\">In the first two quests, students tackle flood forecasting and eye disease detection, inspired by Google Research\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.research.google\/gr\/floodforecasting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flood Forecasting initiative<\/a> and AI model for <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/company-news\/inside-google\/around-the-globe\/google-asia\/arda-diabetic-retinopathy-india-thailand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">diabetic retinopathy<\/a> screening. Our newest quest, \u201cPolar Peaks,\u201d has students travel to the frontiers of neuroscience and see how AI can speed up scientific research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, we\u2019re launching \u201cPolar Peaks\u201d, our third quest in the AI Quests series, created by Google Research and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,11003,125],"class_list":["post-657901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-none","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}