Thursday, November 21African Digital Business Magazine

Tag: Artificial Intelligence

18Dec By Africa BusinessNo Comments
Tech

Building trust amidst suspicion: The impact of AI on business and society

By Wayne Toms, CEO of Ghostdraft Hardly a day passes without someone, somewhere, speculating about artificial intelligence (AI) and whether we, as businesses and society at large, can and should trust the technology. While much of the fear mongering is based on hearsay and outright speculation, there certainly are legitimate concerns. However, businesses and consumers have more than enough reason to believe — and trust — AI’s ability to add significant value to their processes and lives.  Customer communication management (CCM), infused with complementary AI, has literally shifted the goalposts for what businesses can achieve with personalised, accurate and compliant customer communication at scale.  On the other hand, screaming headlines work people into a state. Rumours have surfaced ...
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Business can unlock growth opportunities through enhanced data insights, advanced analytics and innovation – Experian Innovation Summit
19Sep By Africa BusinessNo Comments
Business

Business can unlock growth opportunities through enhanced data insights, advanced analytics and innovation – Experian Innovation Summit

Experian South Africa hosted its annual flagship conference on Thursday 14 September, bringing together industry guests and subject matter experts under one roof to share insights and trends that continue to shape the evolution of business and consumer behaviour. This is particularly significant in a macro-economic environment that has been challenging across the board. However, the Innovation Summit demonstrated that businesses have the opportunity to position themselves for growth and resilience by enhancing their data insights, analytics, technology and innovation. “With the array of choice available for today’s consumer, organisations are investing more in data driven customer insights to create relevant products and services that can be better targeted at the right customers. For cr...
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11Jul By Africa BusinessNo Comments
Tech

4IR Skills aren’t all digital – Empowering artisans and more this World Youth Skills Day and beyond

Artificial Intelligence is going to change the way people work, rather than making that work obsolete. Similarly, learning to work with and alongside AI requires a different skill set to maximise the advantages of the technology – and it’s also essential to preserve the importance of the human element. It’s vital to consider that AI can’t do everything  – like generating normal-looking human hands – and as much as it evolves, there’ll always be a place for managers, programmers and the like, alongside it. World Youth Skills Day on 15 July is themed ‘Skilling teachers, trainers and youth for a transformative future’ for 2023 and has a focus on the essential role that teachers, trainers and other educators play in providing skills for youth to transition to the labour market and to actively...
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AI in the Age of Data: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Decision-Making
10May By Africa BusinessNo Comments
Tech

AI in the Age of Data: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Decision-Making

Photo by geralt on Pixabay ‍By HALLEY JONES Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning have become increasingly popular in recent years, with businesses and industries leveraging the power of AI to make smarter decisions. AI offers businesses the ability to analyze massive amounts of data, identify patterns, and make predictions that would be impossible for humans to do on their own. In this article, we will explore the role of AI in decision-making and discuss the benefits, challenges, and future trends of AI decision-making. Introduction to AI and its Role in Decision-making AI algorithms are designed to analyze data, recognize patterns, and make predictions based on that data. AI is being used to automate and optimize a variety of processes, from customer service to supply ...
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Five Areas Where AI Can Help Do Better Business, Right Now
13Mar By Africa BusinessNo Comments
Business, Tech

Five Areas Where AI Can Help Do Better Business, Right Now

By: Jacques Du Bruyn, Managing Director, Flume  While the creative industry loses its collective mind about how ChatGPT, Bard and the ‘smarter’ version of Bing are going to decimate job numbers in the industry and deliver massive volumes of poor-quality work at next to no cost – and there’s plenty to be said about why that panic is misplaced – there are plenty of applications for AI in the creative industry and others that don’t have people quite as upset. Content Production AI is making inroads right now is content creation and production, in terms of developing ideas and producing the content itself.  While AI is able to produce content, as well as to edit, proofread, personalise, optimise and curate – it comes with caveats alongside the time-saving aspects.  Almost every business has...
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13Mar By Africa BusinessNo Comments
Tech

ChatGPT and Cybersecurity: What AI means for digital security

As AI technology like ChatGPT evolves, so do the strategies and tactics used by cybercriminals. Steve Flynn, Sales and Marketing Director at ESET Southern Africa, says ongoing awareness is crucial in understanding how to manage potential cybersecurity challenges posed by these developing tools. As artificial intelligence (AI) technology becomes a new reality for individuals and businesses, its potential impact on cybersecurity cannot be ignored. OpenAI and its language model, ChatGPT, are no exception and while these tools offer significant benefits to almost every industry, they also present new challenges for digital security. ChatGPT raises concerns due to its natural language processing capabilities, which could be used to create highly personalised and sophisticated cyberattacks. Th...
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The big impact of AI and more for businesses in 2023
6Feb By Africa BusinessNo Comments
Tech

The big impact of AI and more for businesses in 2023

By Ciaran McKivergan, CEO and founding partner at 8909 Digital Artificial Intelligence (AI) will slowly start its journey to necessity in the advertising world in 2023. It’s ‘been coming’ for a few years now and a few progressive operators have slowly been rolling it out, but 2023 will be the year that its application reaches critical mass and really starts to impact the way agencies offer clients solutions – and the way the public consumes those messages. AI in Creativity Whenever a disruptive technology comes along, the affected industry’s reaction is generally running around with its collective hair on fire because the world is about to end. Once the hysteria subsides, people realise that they can harness the technology and work alongside it to make their lives easier and improve the...
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How AI is Transforming Paediatric Radiology in Africa
21Oct By Africa BusinessNo Comments
Main, Medicine, South Africa News

How AI is Transforming Paediatric Radiology in Africa

The 10th annual AFRICA HEALTH CONGRESS will be held at Gallagher Estate from 26-28 October. This year's Congress is expected to include representatives from 56 countries and offer free CPD conferences. A possible topic of interest at this year's event is discussed in the content below. This article looks at the reasons why African radiology professionals may be reluctant to make use of artificial intelligence in their field, including a lack of funding for AI-powered equipment and lack of training and education in the era of transformation. Concepts like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning algorithms, deep learning, and convolutional neural networks, previously the forte of the IT world, are now being applied across many sectors of the medical world as well[i]. Radiology has ...
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6Sep By Africa BusinessNo Comments
Events, South Africa News, Tech

Africa’s Largest B2B AI Focused Trade Event Celebrates 5th Anniversary & Announces Johannesburg Programme

AI Expo Africa, the largest business-focused Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Intelligent Automation (IA) trade event in Africa and celebrates its 5th Anniversary Edition on 19-20 September in the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. Uniting 100s of buyers, suppliers, investors, innovators, SMMEs and global tech brands in the region, AI Expo Africa focuses on real-world applications you can deploy today. The business audience is comprised of Enterprise decision-makers, Tier 1 / 2 deployment & service providers, start-ups, educators, government, NGOs and ecosystem builders. AI Expo Africa 2022 will feature the following elements 10,000 sq Foot Expo Hall 63 vendors & 2 showcase pavilions 4 Track speaking programme 4 Plenary Keynotes plus 3-panel ...
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New fund targets Early Stage AI Tech Start-ups in Africa
31Mar By Africa BusinessNo Comments
Startups

New fund targets Early Stage AI Tech Start-ups in Africa

The Swedish AI Fund (SAIF) is an NGO with the purpose of providing financial aid, grants, and scholarships globally to those who are working, researching, and/or involved in the AI industry towards equality, safety, and security in the field of AI. To achieve this end, several public and private actors are collaborating in SAIF.  In 2022, SAIF is funding 100 million Swedish Krona (approx. Euro 10 million) globally.  SAIF is expanding fast to reach more countries. Currently, SAIF is active in 8 countries: Israel, Sweden, Albania, the UK, South Africa, Germany, Georgia, and North Macedonia.  The AI Media Group is the primary launch partner for SAIF in Africa along with launch partners; AWS, Nvidia, Telkom, Embassy of Switzerland SA, Zindi, Cirrus AI and AiCE Kenya. We now invite candidate A...
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