Quincey Stumptner + Lilla Grün + Karyn Sawyerr + Tejumade Afonja+ Marlene Straub, moderiert von Rachel Nduati im #atrium2 1/x
"AI made in Africa – or made
for Africa"
Who decides about the future we want to live in? Not the people, but very few of tech-CEO, who are from the #USA, not from #Africa. BigTech gives bad jobs to people from Ghana or Uganda, though there's a lot of talent. Africa needs invest from other nations, but must become co-creator of the digital products.
Quincey Stumptner + Lilla Grün + Karyn Sawyerr + Tejumade Afonja+ Marlene Straub, moderiert von Rachel Nduati im #atrium2 2/x
What do you want the AI for? You have to map out the problem, then come together to solve it. #Africa hasn't got the money for data centers to research like Europe, so Africa hasn't got an own #llm. The LLM are trained with the main languages, but lots of African can't speak these languages.
#culturalcolonialism is very prevalent. Very many undersea-cables in Africa.
Quincey Stumptner + Lilla Grün + Karyn Sawyerr + Tejumade Afonja+ Marlene Straub, moderiert von Rachel Nduati im #atrium2 3/x
All #llm are trained with "white data", no African data, not in health care, not in education etc.
Translation accent to accent would help the African people a lot to do research. Africa isn't a land, ist's a continent, so very divers, also in language. So there are many bias in LLM.
Kadda