"Data is the new gold. They will extract the data from us, create programs and then sell those programs back to us. And then all the profits flow out."

- Pelonomi Moiloa in the latest edition of The Continent on the importance of African AI solutions.

#AIethics #chatgpt #bard

Related: "Each £1,000 donated will send one more student to this year's Deep Learning Indaba.

African #machinelearning is strong and varied. ​… Africans must be contributors, shapers and owners of the coming advances in machine learning. The #DeepLearningIndaba is our effort to strengthen the foundations of African machine learning, and to increase the participation of African researchers in the field."

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