Defining what’s ethical in artificial intelligence needs input from Africans
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it’s becoming widespread. It is used in mobile phone
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Artificial intelligence is getting better at writing, and universities should worry about plagiarism
THE dramatic rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has spotlit concerns about the role of technology in exam
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AI is watching: What to know about workplace surveillance
ARTHUR NESLEN FROM Swedish retailer H&M being fined 35 million euros ($42 million) for recording employees’ private data to Britain’s Barclays bank
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“Mama Robotics” wows a nation
DORCAS BELLO 18-YEAR-OLD artificial intelligence whizz Mercy Sampson’s robotics prototypes have wowed Nigeria. Now she wants Africa to focus on
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AI is taking over job hiring, but can it be racist?
AVI ASHER-SCHAPIRO SINCE graduating from a U.S. university four years ago, Kevin Carballo has lost count of the number of
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‘China could rule world’s technology’
GUY FAULCONBRIDGE THE West must urgently act to ensure China does not dominate important emerging technologies and gain control of
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Small-scale fishermen turn to apps and AI to tackle climate change
MICHAEL TAYLOR FROM weather-predicting apps to using artificial intelligence to monitor the fish they catch, small-scale fishermen and coastal communities
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‘By Africans, for Africans’: Female entrepreneur pioneers facial recognition tech
KIM HARRISBERG CHARLETTE N’Guessan Desiree loved maths and science as a student in Ivory Coast but never imagined she would
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‘I know your favourite drink’: Chinese smart city to put AI in charge
UMBERTO BACCHI FROM robots delivering coffee to office chairs rearranging themselves after a meeting, a smart city project in China
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Questions swirl about possible racial bias in Twitter image function
AVI ASHER-SCHAPIRO SOCIAL media giant Twitter said on Monday it would investigate its image-cropping function that users complained favored white
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