China urges AI investment post-political summit

China urges AI investment post-political summit

China's biggest political gathering of the year wrapped up on Monday, as delegates called for more investment in artificial intelligence. Laura Westbrook has more.

March 11, 2024 38

Namibia

Local lecturer tackles ethical dilemmas in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, including tools like ChatGPT, is increasingly becoming mainstream, with companies investing billions of dollars in the hope that it will revolutionize our daily lives. However, CNN reports that there are growing concerns about biases, inaccuracies, and ethical issues associated with AI technology. We reached out to Dr. Clayton Peel, a senior communication lecturer at the Namibia University of Science and Technology for comment.

March 11, 2024 46

Science & Technology

OpenAI’s new video generation tool raises concerns

"Sora" is another giant leap in artificial intelligence. It is the latest tool released by the company behind the groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT. It can create realistic-looking videos based on a simple text prompt. But there are concerns about what "Sora" could unleash.

March 7, 2024 30

Namibia

Tech companies join forces against AI election manipulation

Tech leaders, lawmakers, and civil society groups are alarmed about the potential for artificial intelligence to disrupt elections worldwide. In response, a coalition of major tech companies have pledged to collaborate in detecting and countering harmful AI content, including deepfakes of political candidates. CEO of the National Commission on Research, Science, and Technology, Professor Anicia Peters weighs in.

February 27, 2024 50

World

Geneva meeting tackles AI impact on vehicle automation

With Artificial Intelligence tools developing at a fast pace, government representatives, industry experts, and UN officials are meeting in Geneva to discuss vehicle automation. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's lead official on Intelligent Transport Systems and Automated Driving, Francois Guichard has more.

February 22, 2024 14

Business / Economics

The Alexforbes Lead Story – 20 February 2024

David speaks to Vitalis Haupindi, co-founder of exciting homegrown ed-tech startup Yyeni AI. https://iono.fm/e/1408221

February 21, 2024 28

Africa

Zambia hits a copper jackpot from an AI-powered exploration

By Bonface Orucho, via bird story agency Zambia’s mineral portfolio has received a major boost with the discovery of the largest copper deposits ever recorded in the country. Through an official statement on the social media site X, on February 5, 2023, KoBold, an American startup backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, announced the discovery of vast copper deposits at their Mingomba mine in northern Zambia. “Mingomba […]

February 8, 2024 8

Opinion Pieces

Using AI to monitor the internet for terror content is inescapable – but also fraught with pitfalls

shutterstock. metamorworks/Shutterstock Stuart Macdonald, Swansea University; Ashley A. Mattheis, Dublin City University, and David Wells, Swansea University Every minute, millions of social media posts, photos and videos flood the internet. On average, Facebook users share 694,000 stories, X (formerly Twitter) users post 360,000 posts, Snapchat users send 2.7 million snaps and YouTube users upload more than 500 hours of video. This vast ocean of online material needs to be constantly […]

February 7, 2024 18

Lifestyle

How AI could change our relationship with religion

Metamorworks / Shutterstock Sreevas Sahasranamam, University of Glasgow Science and faith are often kept in two distinct boxes that hardly ever intersect. However, I believe that as AI becomes more mainstream, it will fundamentally alter our engagement with faith and spirituality. Let’s start by looking at what is already happening. Most ancient faith-related texts were documented in papyrus and palm leaves, many of which are difficult to access in the […]

February 6, 2024 39