3/3 Whether you're a tech lover, a language enthusiast, or an aspiring changemaker, this book will ignite your passion and maybe even inspire your next big step.

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Black in AI Masakhane

2/3 This story isn't just about overcoming obstacles; it's about pioneering changes that significantly impact the world. Join me in exploring a tale of resilience, innovation, and inspiration.

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1/3 I'm thrilled to announce my book detailing my journey from Benin to impactful achievements in AI, with a special focus on healthcare and language technologies for underrepresented African languages. It’s already available for preorder a.co/d/iLQE1AC

#NewPaper What you see in the picture is the current best metal-organic framework (MOF) for ammonia adsorption, an important environmentally relevant application. Its composition is C78-O25-H42-Cr3. We discovered this material by developing a new algorithm that combines Bayesian…

Check out our new paper on MOF discovery for NH3 adsorption! This is only scratching the surface of what's possible with the Vendi Score regarding materials discovery. Stay tuned for more! Reach out if you'd like to collaborate to use VBO for your materials discovery problem ✨

Although the US, EU and China dominate coverage of the effort to regulate artificial intelligence, a less-publicized but vital discourse about AI is taking place throughout Africa, Aubra Anthony & Jane Munga write.
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Hot of the press!! A piece co -authored with Aubra Anthony on Africa’s approach to AI

“African policymakers primarily see AI as a tool for achieving national development goals & economic growth, and there is an urgency to develop AI enablers”

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U.S.-based students/postdocs are encouraged to apply for an MLSys’24 Student Travel Grant. Applications from under-represented groups are encouraged. The deadline is 4/24/24 to apply on mlsys.org. The conference will be held May 13-16 in Santa Clara, California!

New paper from Esther Mwema &I! Undersea cables in Africa: The new frontiers of digital colonialism

current undersea cables Africa not only replicate colonial logic but also follows same infrastructural path laid during the trans-Atlantic slave trade era
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Interviewing Prof. Sanmi Koyejo for The Africa I Know® was an honor. Stanford University, he develops fair ML in healthcare. As Pres. of Black in AI, he advocates for Black representation in AI. From fixing gadgets in Lagos to leading AI research: theafricaiknow.org/features/Sanmi…

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We're excited to share that our Geospatial team received an honorable mention in the United States NASA Earth Observation project's Pale Blue Dot Visualization Challenge, out of 1591 participants.

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It has been a great week co-facilitating Nigerian AI strategy with 120+ globally recognized Nigerian AI researchers & practitioners in a high-powered workshop.

DSNai-Data Science Nigeria/Data Scientists Network is humbled to lead this effort to position AI as a nation-defining capability for shared prosperity.

Friends, I'm happy to announce that my paper with Dr. Émile P. Torres (Dr. Émile P. Torres), The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, is finally out on this issue of First Monday.
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🇲🇱 In Mali, the practice of using artificial intelligence to create children's books in Bambara and other local languages is gaining momentum. | African Union Education Program Black Women in A.I. Black in AI BDPA

This is happening against the background of a partial refusal to use the language…

AI understands just a tiny fraction of the thousands of languages used worldwide. That means the promised chatbot revolution could shut out billions of people, and even push some languages to extinction, Matteo Wong writes: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Thank you for the interview Matteo Wong The Atlantic , great to hear diverse opinions about the topic Bonaventure F. P. Dossou Ife Adebara Antonis Anastasopoulos @EACL alexandra birch Sara Hooker Holy Lovenia Mehak Dhaliwal

Join us today for our Colloquium with Jennifer Ngadiuba (Fermilab) discussing anomaly detection at the LHC. Starting at 2 pm ET on YouTube: youtube.com/live/5P2GthbYB…

To tailor data collection across the 101 languages of Aya, ambassadors advocated for their languages and worked directly with contributors. For linguist Olanrewaju Samuel, this included teachings on how to use a keyboard to represent Yorùbá tonal markings.

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Some perspectives on AI regulation in Africa. By Abdullahi Tsanni.

'Africa’s push to regulate AI starts now' My two cents?

1. African governments should support & protect African startups that are getting stolen from under the guise of 'open source.'

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Supremely honoured to be featured by my PhD Alma Mater Rutgers University -> Ways Rutgers Is Shaping the AI Revolution rutgers.edu/news/ways-rutg… #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP