Does Africa need to embrace AI to keep its music centre stage?
Fellow Nigerian Emmanuel Ogala, the boss of AI-powered company Josplay, definitely sees the opportunities for Africa. His ...
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The Download: AI in Africa, and reporting in the age of Trump
Africa is still early in the process of adopting AI technologies. But researchers say the continent is uniquely hospitable to ...
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What Africa needs to do to become a major AI player
It attracted over 700 attendees to hear about—and debate—the potential of Africa-centric AI and how it’s being deployed in agriculture, education, health care, and other critical sectors of ...
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'I may not be human but I sing from my soul' - AI divides African musicians
And given a lack of understanding about AI throughout Africa, and the fact that AI tends to rely on data sources collated in the West, there are concerns about how African music and cultural ...
AI robot’s portrait of Alan Turing that ‘challenges what it is to be human’ sets record, selling for $1.08 million
An AI robot’s painting of British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1.08 million, becoming the most valuable artwork by a humanoid robot ever to change hands at auction and ...
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Google Extends Voice AI Support for 15 More African Languages
Google — which already supports typing with a custom keyboard in Gboard for approximately 200 African languages, and machine translations for over 60 African languages in Google Translate — now ...