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