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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.
Lumi Era
June 06, 2024
🗞️ 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.
AI for Good Summit 2024
AI for Good isn’t just another tech conference. This annual summit, hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in partnership with 40 UN sister agencies, serves as the leading United Nations platform for inclusive dialogue on Artificial Intelligence.
🌱 Offered for free to all attendees
🌱 Welcomes participants from over 145 countries
🌱 Boasts an active online community of over 25,000 people
🌱 Focuses on identifying practical applications of AI to accelerate progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
🌱 Strives to scale solutions for worldwide impact
Lumiera attended to engage in this important dialogue. We had the opportunity to network, participate in insightful discussions, learn from the experiences of others, share our perspectives, and explore innovative technologies. Appetite for conversations and forums around Responsible AI is high. The program was packed with workshops, keynote interviews, and four floors of booths from incredible organisations showcasing their products and services, all with the common goal of using and developing AI for good.
Lumiera Highlights
🌟Global Index on Responsible AI: spanning 138 countries, the Global Index on Responsible AI is the largest global data collection to date and the first attempt to measure responsible AI. What was clear from Rachel Adams’ (CEO & Founder of the Global Center on AI Governance) presentation is that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to responsible AI. Each country and organisation needs to identify its unique path and "must-haves." The first index is due June 13th and we can’t wait to read it! Sign up here to get notified.
🐾 Earth Species Project - fascinating research on interspecies communication. Earth Species Project (ESP) works on decoding animal language using AI. Check out this video demonstrating how ESP's generative AI models can continue the vocalisations of another species in their own voice.
💡 Nobi Smart Lamps - an AI-driven, life-saving care technology disguised as a stylish lamp, that detects, prevents, and predicts falls. These lamps help prevent disorientation with automatic lighting and support a natural daily rhythm with circadian lighting.
🎶 Kieku AI - a real-time music prediction system, trained on licensed music, that collaborates with musicians in an improvisation setting to compose spontaneous passages of music.
👓.lumen - The .lumen glasses take self-driving technology and scale it down to something that can be worn as easily as a hat. Just like a guide dog pulls your hand, the .lumen glasses tug at your head and understand obstacles above or below the ground and keep you away from them.
Other key themes that emerged over the 2-day conference:
📜The importance of clear alignment and definitions regarding responsible AI. This is important for drafting regulations around AI and translating internal AI policies and strategies into language that makes sense for end-users.
🌐 Collaboration is key! Partnerships hold immense potential for advancing responsible AI. Building a strong network of collaborators will be crucial for collective progress.
🌍 Call for responsible AI collaboration between the public and private sector. There is a lot to learn, and instead of working in silos, we can focus on sharing knowledge, resources, and expertise.
Were you at AI for Good? We’d love to hear which ideas resonated most with you!
Until next time.
On behalf of Team Lumiera
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