Current Affairs Quiz - November, 2023

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The Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations officially adopted a code of conduct for companies involved in the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems.
Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) economies as well as the European Union, kicked off the process in May at a ministerial forum dubbed the ‘Hiroshima AI process’. The code aims to promote safe, secure, and trustworthy AI worldwide and will provide voluntary guidance for actions by organizations developing the most advanced AI systems.

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The Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Hemant Soren, inaugurated the longest bridge in the state over the Mayurakshi river in Dumka.
The bridge, which cost Rs 198 crore to build, is 2.34 km long and 16 meters wide. It will reduce the distance between various districts and improve connectivity. The river has its source on Trikut Hills in Jharkhand. It flows through Jharkhand and flows into the Hooghly River through two districts of West Bengal.

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‘AI Safety Summit 2023’ will be organized by the UK government on November 1 and 2 this year. The summit will involve the attendance of prominent global think tanks, well-known academic institutions with expertise in AI, and government officials from countries.
Elon Musk is attending the summit, along with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and the CEOs of several top AI firms.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that District Central Co-operative Banks now have the authority to close their unremunerative branches without the necessity for prior permission from the central bank.
However, approval from the Registrar of Cooperative Societies in the respective state will still be required. The cooperative banks were brought under the regulatory framework of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 2020.

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The Central Railway has successfully implemented the Block Proving by Axle Counter (BPAC) system in the Vasind-Asangaon section of Mumbai Division.
This BPAC system plays a crucial role in ensuring the highest level of safety for train operations.

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The next AI Safety Summit is expected to be hosted by South Korea in mid-2024, followed by France around late-2024.
The UK, which hosts this year’s summit announced the news at the opening of the inaugural summit at Bletchley Park in central England.

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In 2021, climate adaptation funding from public multilateral entities (such as the World Bank) and bilateral sources (from developed to developing nations) experienced a 15% decrease, as revealed in the 2023 Adaptation Gap Report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
This decline occurred despite the commitments made at the 26th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. These commitments aimed to double the support for adaptation finance from 2019 levels, targeting an annual sum of approximately $40 billion by 2025.

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The World Meteorological Organization’s annual report on the State of Climate Services for this year centers its attention on the topic of health.
The report emphasizes the critical requirement for customized climate-related information and services to assist the healthcare sector in coping with increasingly severe weather conditions, deteriorating air quality, changing patterns of infectious diseases, and challenges related to food and water security.

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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) held a conference called the Legal Identity and Rights-Based Return Management Conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The conference aimed to facilitate discussions between countries of origin and destination regarding individuals who lack legal identities. Globally, approximately one billion people do not possess a legal identity, as reported by the United Nations’ IOM, which is headquartered at Geneva, Switzerland.

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India and Italy sign Mobility and Migration Partnership Agreement to facilitate movement of workers, students.
With a population of around 1,80,000, the Indian diaspora in Italy is the third-largest in Europe, following the UK and the Netherlands.