Original Story Published by: Richa Bhatia for Analytics India Magazine
There is an artificial intelligence awakening taking place in Africa and much of that success has been attributed to Google. The Silicon Valley-based company has been driving a transformational change for the last 10 years there. The dawn of AI in Africa has been much later than most developed countries but reports peg that across the continent — from Zimbabwe to Ghana — ripples have been felt with AI weaving a socio-economic change. Earlier this June, Google Senior Fellow Jeff Dean announced Google AI research center in Africa, which will open later this year in Accra, Ghana. The centre will bring top machine learning researchers and engineers dedicated to AI research and its applications.
The search engine giant has also helped Africans with their digital skills training program and has launched a Launchpad Accelerator Africa through which they supported 100,000 developers and over 60 tech startups. The company also adapted its products to make it easy for people to discover the best of the internet, even on low-RAM smartphones or unstable network connections.
According to a report by Arcon Technologies, the abundance of cloud computing, AI and internet of things (IoT) are driving massive growth in IT opportunities in Africa.
There has been an increased interest in machine learning across Africa with startups mushrooming up. On the back of this development, Africa has also witnessed a rise in data science events such as Data Science Africa 2017 in Tanzania, the 2017 Deep Learning Indaba event in South Africa, and follow-on IndabaX events in 2018 which is a sign of continuing growth of the computer science research community in Africa, notes the Google post.
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Honestly, the girl has tried. She may not speak Yoruba, but she is clearly in tune with her Nigerian and Yoruba roots based on the book. Please let us focus on children born and raised in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya etc. There is an epidemic going on and I don”t think people fully realise it. There are children of Yoruba, Igbo, Esan, Efik parents. i.e. same ethnic group parents who are born and raised in Nigeria and speak ONLY ENGLISH!!!! It is sickening and very very disgraceful! I grew up in Akure and of Igbo parentage. I speak both Yoruba and Igbo! My parents spoke it to us and that is how we picked up the language and culture. It is truly a travesty. These parents almost say it with pride that their children do not speak Yoruba, Igbo etc. yet the parents speak it to each other. Those are the ones we need to heap our insults on. I beg this young lady is putting naija on the map..and I will give her a pass for not speaking Yoruba. She is an American child.those of you with inferiority complex who live in Africa have failed woefully if your children neither speak your native language nor know the culture!