GENEVA, Feb 2 — Eight humanoid robots would be the star sights when the United Nations hosts its first summit because the begin of the pandemic on the advantages of synthetic intelligence, it mentioned Wednesday.
The AI for Good International Summit, first held in 2017, will return to Geneva on July 6 and seven after a three-year Covid-imposed break, the UN’s Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU) mentioned.
The occasion will intention to showcase how synthetic intelligence and different new applied sciences might help attain the UN’s so-called sustainable improvement objectives (SDGs), together with on combating local weather change and boosting humanitarian motion.
“It’s in our collective curiosity that we are able to form AI quicker than it’s shaping us,” the ITU’s new chief Doreen Bogdan-Martin mentioned in an announcement.
“This summit, because the UN’s major platform for AI, will carry to the desk main voices representing a variety of pursuits to make sure that AI could be a highly effective catalyst for progress in our race to rescue the SDGs,” she added.
UN member states adopted the 17 SDGs in 2015. Their goals embrace attaining meals safety, eliminating poverty, and offering entry to scrub and reasonably priced power by 2030.
In the course of the July occasion, eight humanoid social robots and greater than 20 specialised robots might be introduced collectively underneath the identical roof for the primary time, the ITU mentioned.
The humanoid robots — Beonmi, Nadine, Sophia, Geminoid, 4NE-1, Ai-Da Robotic, Grace and Desdemona — will showcase capabilities starting from combating fires and delivering help to offering healthcare and farming sustainably, it mentioned.
On the occasion, authorities officers, business executives, teachers and UN company heads are because of focus on the insurance policies, rules and requirements wanted for AI to assist advance sustainable improvement.
There will even be an “innovation manufacturing facility”, the place start-ups from around the globe can pitch their AI options for advancing the SDGs. — AFP