The Africa's “AI inequality” Challenge
New phrases are emerging in the fledgling AI sector and one of the noticeable ones is “AI inequality”. That is contained in a new IMF which has observed something: “A new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has highlighted a significant gap in digital infrastructure that hampers the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in Nigeria and other developing countries. This revelation comes despite Nigeria's recent efforts, such as unveiling its AI strategy and launching its first Multilingual Large Language Model (LLM) in April.”
Simply, we are in alignment with the IMF as I wrote a few days ago: ‘Good People, the challenge Africa has on AI is not really the technical component. The real issue is electricity. If you do not have electricity to power an electric bulb in Ovim, how do you think you will have energy to power that AI future? There are things which cannot be leapfrogged and one of those is electricity. Indeed, there is no way we can touch that AI future UNLESS we can do the basic things. Electricity is a component of those “basic things”’.
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