Top AI challenges in Africa: Ethics
The challenge of AI ethics is one of choice – what lives should AI improve, what actions should AI be allowed to take and what conditions need to be met before these actions are allowed in your society.
Top AI challenges in Africa: Compute
After 60 minutes of deliberation from leaders of top AI communities in Africa, we learnt that the single major challenge blocking Africa’s trained data scientists from using available data to build world class solutions is the difficulty and expense in accessing fast computers, built to make AI a reality in other continents.
The explore series demo day
The Nairobi Women In Machine Learning and Data Science community is a group for women interested in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science. We meet to socialize and to discuss artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science in an informal setting with the purpose of building a community around women in these fields. We …
Top data challenges that keep AI professionals in Africa up at night
I helped coordinate the inaugural gathering of AI community leaders in Africa and must say I am filled with hope that we will create an environment where people who would never have met before, commune like family, talk about challenges, exchange procedures and celebrate together.
Top job problems facing AI professionals in Africa
June 6th 2020 was a historic day for me, as I helped bring a vision to life with my partners Essa Mohamedali and Alex Tsado. We had been working for two months to design a program that would empower AI community leaders across Africa to connect frequently and grow more efficiently.
Our interview with young African ladies shooting for the stars with AI
We caught up with our first Alliance4ai chapter in Ghana this past week and received very exciting news. Megan, Sharon and Leticia, the leaders of the chapter in their A-level program had just received scholarships to study at prestigious universities in Africa and America. We felt especially proud that some of the 12 members of the chapter chose to have a focus in artificial intelligence while they are in university.
Association of Africa’s AI Communities
Saturday 2nd May 2020, a day that may go down in history as the beginning of Africa wide collaboration of AI communities. This was the day 14 AI communities, representing 7,400 members came together to brainstorm and strategize what an Africa wide AI community should look like, and what it should focus on achieving. If …
The Essence of Artificial Intelligence in Africa
AI is neither good nor evil. It’s a tool. It’s a technology for us to use. ~Oren Etzioni But what kind of tool is AI? Well, that’s not a question with a single answer since there is no officially agreed definition. Even AI researchers have no exact definition of AI. The field is rather being …
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