AI for Good is an ongoing webinar series organized by the Standardization Bureau (

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) of the

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, where AI innovators and problem owners learn, discuss and connect to identify AI solutions to advance the

Sustainable Development Goals The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked objectives designed to serve as a "shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future".United Nations (2017) R ...

. The impetus for organizing global summits that are action oriented, came from existing discourse in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

(AI) research being dominated by research streams such as the

Netflix Prize The Netflix Prize was an open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films, based on previous ratings without any other information about the users or films, i.e. without the users being identified e ...

(improve the movie recommendation algorithm). AI for Good aims to bring forward Artificial Intelligence research topics that contribute towards more global problems, in particular through the

. AI for Good came out of the AI for Good Global Summit 2020 which had been moved online in 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. AI for Good is organized by the Standardization Sector of the ITU (

). Since moving online, AI for Good developed into three main program streams: Learn, Build, and Connect. AI for Good also helps organize ITU's Global Standards Symposium.

2023

The 2023 events received some publicity due to the large gathering of humanoid robots that occurred, including Ai-Da,

Nadine Social Robot Nadine is a gynoid humanoid social robot that is modelled on Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann. The robot has a strong human-likeness with a natural-looking skin and hair and realistic hands. Nadine is a socially intelligent robot which returns ...

, Geminoid, and

Sophia Sophia means "wisdom" in Greek. It may refer to: *Sophia (wisdom) *Sophia (Gnosticism) *Sophia (given name) Places *Niulakita or Sophia, an island of Tuvalu *Sophia, Georgetown, a ward of Georgetown, Guyana *Sophia, North Carolina, an unincorpor ...

Neural Network

In 2020 the Global Summit became an online-only event. In 2022, the summit moved to the "Neural Network" community platform. Speakers include:

Global Summit 2019

The third AI for Good Global Summit took place from 28 May to 31 May, and gave rise to the

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with several Day 0 workshops and VIP events having taken place on May 27. Some of the speakers included:

Global Summit 2018

The second AI for Good Global Summit took place from 15 to 17 May 2018 at the

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headquarters in

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

and generated 35 AI project proposals Speakers included:

Global Summit 2017

The first AI for Good Global summit took place from 7 to 9 June 2017. Speakers at the event included: One of the outcomes of the 2017 Global Summit was the creation of an

Focus Group on Machine Learning for 5G.

Outcomes

Machine Learning 5G

The ITU-T Focus Group on Machine Learning for 5G Networks (FG-ML5G) was created following discussions at the 2017 AI for Good Global Summit. The FG-ML5G is produced several technology standards in this domain, including

Y.3172 Y.3172 is an ITU-T Recommendation specifying an architecture for machine learning in future networks including 5G (IMT-2020). The architecture describes a machine learning pipeline in the context of Telecommunications network, telecommunication n ...

Y.3173 Y.3173 is an ITU-T The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It is responsible for coordinating standards for telecommunications ...

Y.3176 Y.3176 is an ITU-T Recommendation, building upon Y.3172 and Y.3173, specifying a framework for evaluation intelligence levels of future networks such as 5G (IMT-2020). This Recommendation provides high-level requirements and the architecture f ...

, which were adopted by

ITU-T Study Group 13 The ITU-T Study Group 13 (SG13) is a statutory group of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) concerned with networks, infrastructure and cloud computing, including the networking aspects of mobile telecommunications. Example ...

. The FG-ML5G created the impetus for a new ITU-T Focus Group on Autonomous Networks, which is responsible for i.a.

Y.3181 Y.3181 is an ITU-T Recommendation specifying an Architectural framework for Machine Learning Sandbox in future networks (e.g. 5G, IMT-2020). The standard describes the requirements and architecture for a machine learning sandbox (computer securi ...

AI for Health

The 2018 Global Summit led to the creation of the

ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health The ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (AI for Health) is an inter-agency collaboration between the World Health Organization and the ITU, which created a benchmarking framework to assess the accuracy of AI in health. Thi ...

with the

World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of h ...

, which created the AI for Health Framework.

Trustworthy AI

Together with

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and 17, AI for Good has been developing technology specifications under

Trustworthy AI Trustworthy AI is a programme of work of the ITU (United Nations Specialized Agency for ICT) under its AI for Good programme. The programme advances the standardization of a number of Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including homomorphic ...

. Including items on

homomorphic encryption Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption that permits users to perform computations on its encrypted data without first decrypting it. These resulting computations are left in an encrypted form which, when decrypted, result in an identical ...

, secure

multi-party computation Secure multi-party computation (also known as secure computation, multi-party computation (MPC) or privacy-preserving computation) is a subfield of cryptography with the goal of creating methods for parties to jointly compute a function over their ...

, and federated learning.

ITU Journal "ICT Discoveries"

The ITU relaunched its Journal ICT Discoveries during the 2018 Global Summit, with the first edition being a special on Artificial Intelligence.

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