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04 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
GOALS (SDGs)
Learning Outcomes
• What are Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
• Role of AI to Achieve SDGs
Hello Vincy! I was watching a Yes, AI has been helping humanity
documentary earlier and I was quite constantly for its betterment.
moved by the condition of people
around the world.
How? How is AI doing that?
Yes Alice, the growing population
has left the world in an unrelenting
need of resources. Humanity needs Well, a conference was held at
to work on these topics as soon as the United Nations on Sustainable
possible for It's betterment. Development in Rio de Janeiro
in 2012. In that conference, the
Sustainable Development Goals
Well! Can AI help us in some way? (SDGs) were born. I will tell you
more about SDGs in this chapter.
Since ancient times, humans have tried to be better than others and moved forward
with the creation of tools that aided them to stay ahead of every other living being. In
the attempt to make life easier, humans tried to make machines intelligent and smarter.
These days we have machines that can think and give responses close to a human being.
This is how the concept of smart machines came into existence. In this chapter, we are
going to learn how that change happened and how we came so far.
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