“Africa has many challenges where the use of AI could be beneficial, sometimes even more than in other places,” Google’s head of AI Accra, Moustapha Cisse, told AFP at the centre’s official opening this week. China is overtaking US in artificial intelligenceSimilar research centres have already opened in cities around the world including Tokyo, Zurich, New York and Paris. Cisse, an expert from Senegal, said he hoped specialist engineers and AI researchers would collaborate with local organisations and policymakers. Google is working with universities and start-ups in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa to enhance AI development regionally, he said. World’s first AI female news anchor unveiled in ChinaBy 2050, the UN estimates the population will double to 2.4 billion.

Source: The Express Tribune April 13, 2019 08:37 UTC