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🔆 AI for Good 2024: Lumiera’s Key Takeaways
A closer look at the United Nations' 2024 AI for Good Summit, fascinating research on interspecies communication and the Google SEO leak.
Sarah, Emma and Allegra at Lumiera.ai
June 06, 2024
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🗞️ Issue 21 // ⏱️ Read Time: 5 min
Hello 👋
Lumiera just came back from the massively attended, highly anticipated, AI for Good Summit in Geneva. The Summit boasted an impressive lineup; a few names were the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, Azeem Azhar from Exponential View, HRH Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton, and Rumman Chowdhury, CEO of Humane Intelligence.
In this week's newsletter
What we’re talking about: Lumiera’s experience at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva.
How it’s relevant: The summit provides a platform for networking and collaboration among AI innovators, policymakers, and humanitarian leaders, facilitating the development of new projects and the scaling up of AI solutions globally.
Why it matters: AI for Good is the UN's primary platform for AI, emphasising the importance of AI in achieving its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the need for international coordination and cooperation. The summit facilitates much-needed global dialogue on the potential of AI to act as a force for good.
Big tech news of the week…
💾Nvidia has unveiled its next-generation AI chip platform, named "Rubin," set to be rolled out in 2026. This introduction is part of Nvidia's goal to meet the growing demand for high-performance AI hardware and maintain its dominance in the AI chip market.
📺Showrunner is the “Netflix of AI.” This text-to-episode system allows users to generate scenes and episodes up to 16 minutes long, with a prompt of just 10 to 15 words. 10 shows generated with Showrunner have already been announced.
🇸🇪Microsoft announced it will invest 33.7 billion Swedish crowns (2.9 billion €) to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Sweden over a two-year period. The company plans to deploy 20,000 of the most advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) at its Swedish data centers.
🤯 A collection of 2,500 leaked internal documents from Google sheds light on how Search, operates. Google initially did not comment, but eventually confirmed that the leaked documents are real. This is likely to cause ripples across the search engine optimisation (SEO), marketing, and publishing industries.