Generally unfamiliar with AI, SMEs nevertheless provide 80-90% of all jobs and generate 70-75% of GDP, depending on the country concerned. To help them learn more about this technology, GPAI experts have built a model of an online portal where AI solution providers and SMEs can meet in the virtual world.
The Innovation and Commercialization Working Group assesses and recommends practical tools and methods that private actors and research organisations can use to stimulate international collaboration in AI-related R&D and innovation, with particular focus on SMEs.
Baroness Joanna Shields, Multi-stakeholder Expert Group Plenary Chair and GPAI Steering Committee Co-Chair outlines the key issues to be addressed at the Artificial Intelligence Summit to be held in Paris on 11 and 12 November. More specifically, she highlights the considerable body of work already completed by the working groups.
Renaud Vedel, the incoming Co-Chair of the GPAI Steering Committee, reiterates the mission of the Global Partnership on AI launched in 2020, which will hold this year’s Summit in Paris. The coordinator of the French government’s national strategy for artificial intelligence also talks about the many challenges that remain.
Whether future computer scientists or social scientists, students from around the world have temporarily quit their lecture theatres to become investigators for GPAI. It’s a valuable way for these future professionals to get to grips with the issues of AI in the corporate world and prepare for their own futures in that world.
There will be no battle between man and machine. Instead, GPAI experts are advocating a form of collaboration that has yet to be identified against a background of profound transformation in work practices as a result of AI. It’s a process that will require a lengthy socialisation phase for employees.
Next year, the GPAI experts intend to extend their thinking to include the effects of climate change on biodiversity in order to understand how AI tools can be used for this purpose.
Floods, earthquakes, pandemics: Artificial Intelligence can help to solve the challenges of climate change and epidemics. But it is important that we act quickly and develop a globally coordinated approach to these issues. Watch the full interview with Yoshua Bengio
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