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Sustainable Development Goals

2025-10-20 17:16:25.836292+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

4u.lol reports on the various AI pitches to the ITU

The Innovation Factory is a global startup pitch competition run by the UN International Telecommunications Union to recognise AI-powered solutions that help address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Throughout the year, startups apply to pitch at online and in-person events. A panel of judges pick the best pitch to win a free trip to the UN AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva for a chance to compete in the Innovation Factory Grand Finale. Previous Grand Finalists include a blockchain-powered health service, the "world's first AI-native game engine for learning", and low-cost robotic limbs for amputees. (So a mixed bag, you could say.)

Via Ludic 🧛 @ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club who describes it as:

Someone did a writeup of a bunch of "AI-powered" startups attending a pitch competition, and it:

a ) is fucking hilarious

b ) involves one of the startups accidentally screen-sharing that their patentable technology appears to just be forked from an academic's work with no credit

3) further includes a radiology company admitting they haven't consulted any radiologists lmao

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