Microsoft is making some good noises about AI in our motherlands
When it comes to game-changing developments like artificial intelligence (AI), and messenger RNA vaccines, Africa is often like the grumpy lad in the township along the highway. ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH NYAGAH | NMG
Tech giant Microsoft recently posted a blog — or better a visionary white paper — titled AI in Africa: Meeting the Opportunity. It is not for reading on an easy Sunday breakfast, but if you are sitting somewhere in Nairobi stranded by floods, it is worth the slog if one glosses over a lot of the self-back-patting.
Perhaps except for mobile phones, when it comes to game-changing developments like artificial intelligence (AI), and messenger RNA vaccines, Africa is often like the grumpy lad in the township along the highway.
