AI is here, are we ready to embrace it?
AI is poised to be the game-changing technology of 2023 in Africa. As the continent continues to modernize, AI is helping to drive innovation in sectors such as agriculture, finance, and healthcare. With its ability to process large amounts of data and make informed decisions, AI is making life easier and more efficient for people across Africa. Machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision are just some of the AI technologies that are being used to tackle some of the continent's biggest challenges. The future of AI in Africa is bright, and it is exciting to see how it will continue to shape and improve the lives of people across the continent.
Technology and Social media trends are ever advancing faster than we can keep up but definitely not for Gen Z’s resilience in adapting to this tech. Data had it is 15-minute of fame, enter AI generation of using the data (read information) collected pre-digital age to create newish data (derived from pre-existing data).
Just when you thought the upgrade of Facebook iOS was advancing, then comes OpenAI with features like the text-to-text ChatGPT, language-to-code Codex, Whisper for English accuracy and speech recognition and text-to-image DALL.E 2(2022). It goes on, text-to-art, text-to-videos most recent being MusicLM a text-to-music AI generator from Google that is not public due to obvious plagiarism issues etc. Note that it wasn't the pioneer of this but will definitely be the giant when it starts to release models to the public. Generated the images with Lensa, an AI app that turns your pictures into art forms using different styles.
Are content creators in for a shock with these tools just a search away available to 5 billion internet users worldwide? Having a good camera and good English doesn't cut it anymore.
So what is AI? An abbreviation for Artificial Intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence in machines designed to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation and presumably to take over the future with machine learning copying and enhancing our human behavioural instinct. Can you imagine a digital copy of yourself? Insane right? What about a text-to-print crazy?!
How does it work though? If you clicked on the above AI generators I have mentioned above they do explain it in a step-by-step process but in simple terms, AI generators are like magic computers that can make new things, like stories or pictures, based on what they've learned from other things they've seen before. They do this by using special computer programs that help them understand patterns and relationships in the information they've been given. The better and more information they have, the better their magic creations will be. And the more they do it, the better they get at it!
To put this into context the italicised words above (I will let you be the judge in the accuracy of the first paragraph words) and the title are all ChatGPT generated.
In two words, unlimited possibilities is what this is and the only way to go is to use it for us not against us. For us to attain a better sustainable management of development in different sectors of the economy. Apply it to law, science, industries, emotional intelligence etc. Even to content creators, it is time you stood yourself out of the crowd with a niche only you can offer. A helpful rule in business: create your own demand, then supply it. Wise up!