Artificial intelligence systems trained largely on foreign datasets risk perpetuating racial bias and undermining South Africa’s transformative constitutional vision if…
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Africa must move beyond being merely a consumer of artificial intelligence and instead become an active global force in creating,…
Malawi is poised for a major step into the artificial intelligence era after the World Bank, with support from the…
Africa’s mobile operators are deploying AI across a growing range of internal functions — including predictive maintenance, network optimization and…
Letlhokwa Mpedi is principal and vice-chancellor at the University of Johannesburg. Thebe Ikalafeng is chancellor of Sol Plaatje University and…
Piracy and unregulated artificial intelligence could threaten Botswana’s cultural identity and economic future if stronger protections for the creative industry…
University of Pretoria academic Vukosi Marivate has been awarded one of South Africa’s highest national honours for his contributions to…
The Kenya-based Masakhane African Languages Hub has joined forces with Microsoft AI for Good Lab, the Gates Foundation and Google.org…
A team of four Nigerian graduates under 25 is building Reedapt, an AI-powered dubbing and real-time multilingual streaming platform aimed…
The GSMA and French AI research company Pleias have released CommonLingua, an open-source language identification model covering 334 languages including…