{"id":12035,"date":"2023-10-30T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/a-goldmine-at-our-fingertips-the-promise-and-perils-of-ai-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:38:11","slug":"a-goldmine-at-our-fingertips-the-promise-and-perils-of-ai-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/a-goldmine-at-our-fingertips-the-promise-and-perils-of-ai-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A goldmine at our fingertips\u2019: the promise and perils of AI in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say artificial intelligence can play an important role in exploiting the potential of countries\u2019 fast-growing populations<\/p>\n<p>In South Africa, there are drones monitoring weeds; in Mauritius, there are computers crunching health data for better outcomes for patients; and in Nairobi, surveillance systems impose a modicum of order on the chaotic traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The bright new future of artificial intelligence in Africa is part of the bright new future of the continent as a whole, advocates say.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/30\/a-goldmine-at-our-fingertips-the-promise-and-perils-of-ai-in-africa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/20316be5ab27d31f93a98e91507eb7a738329324\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b492026bcb2a6bc995e746deeaa2f5c9\" title=\"\u2018A goldmine at our fingertips\u2019: the promise and perils of AI in Africa\" \/>Experts say artificial intelligence can play an important role in exploiting the potential of countries\u2019 fast-growing populations<br \/>\nIn South Africa, there are drones monitoring weeds; in Mauritius, there are computers crunching health data for better outcomes for patients; and in Nairobi, surveillance systems impose a modicum of order on the chaotic traffic.<br \/>\nThe bright new future of artificial intelligence in Africa is part of the bright new future of the continent as a whole, advocates say. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say artificial intelligence can play an important role in exploiting the potential of countries\u2019 fast-growing populations In South Africa, there are drones monitoring weeds; in Mauritius, there are computers crunching health data for better outcomes for patients; and in Nairobi, surveillance systems impose a modicum of order on the chaotic traffic. The bright new &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/a-goldmine-at-our-fingertips-the-promise-and-perils-of-ai-in-africa\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018A goldmine at our fingertips\u2019: the promise and perils of AI in Africa<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}