Sunday, October 27, 2024

Can AI Help Africa Close the Development Gap? You bet!

This is certainly a welcome and distinct prospect!

I suppose, many African countries are also less burdened by excessive government regulation or exaggerated fears like the precautionary principle etc. in Western countries.

AI is being marshalled in multiple fields on the African continent, which contains some of the poorest countries in the world: in Zambia, to help improve medical diagnostics; in Kenya, to enable farmers to identify crop disease; and in Ethiopia, to tailor education materials to pupils’ needs…

Proponents argue that AI can help poorer societies ‘leapfrog’ whole phases of development in the same way that many countries, lacking landline infrastructure, enthusiastically adopted mobile phones in the early 2000s. Once handsets spread, new innovations followed, allowing people to use their devices for everything from financial transactions to paying for access to solar power. ...”

Can AI Help Africa Close the Development Gap? - Human Progress

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