Hailing from Bulawayo Zimbabwe, Babusi Nyoni, an AI innovator currently based in the Netherlands shares his journey building AI solutions ranging from an AI chatbot for Heineken, a dance app for Gqom, diagnosing Parkinson's disease and predicting Africa's next refugee crisis. With a high school diploma being his highest level of education, Babusi proves that lack of higher forms of education such as Masters degree or PhD does not hinder you from creating powerful solutions in the 4th Industrial revolution era, specifically within AI.
In his free time, Babusi experiments with different AI technologies to solve different problems or create new forms of art. In this episode, we touch on motivations for his creations, challenges he faces, the lessons learned, and why he was in Kenya in June 2019.
Some of the resources / notable references from this episode include:
1. Predicting refugee crisis in Africa using AI https://www.unhcr.org/innovation/how-artificial-intelligence-can-be-used-to-predict-africas-next-migration-crisis/
2. Heineken Banternator: https://babusinyoni.com/heineken-banternator/
3. Vosho App and Gqom AI : https://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/babusi-nyoni-making-ai-more-accessible-and-relevant
4. AI Gqom song by Babusi , listen on https://soundcloud.com/state-offf/ai-gqom-pt-ii?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1
5. Links to Tweets from the Heineken Banternator :https://twitter.com/Heineken/status/736659718781992960
6. Read More about Microsoft’s Tay bot on https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/microsoft-silences-its-new-a-i-bot-tay-after-twitter-users-teach-it-racism
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Hailing from Bulawayo Zimbabwe, Babusi Nyoni, an AI innovator currently based in the Netherlands shares his journey building AI solutions ranging from an AI chatbot for Heineken, a dance app for Gqom, diagnosing Parkinson's disease and predicting Africa's next refugee crisis. With a high school diploma being his highest level of education, Babusi proves that lack of higher forms of education such as Masters degree or PhD does not hinder you from creating powerful solutions in the 4th Industrial revolution era, specifically within AI.
In his free time, Babusi experiments with different AI technologies to solve different problems or create new forms of art. In this episode, we touch on motivations for his creations, challenges he faces, the lessons learned, and why he was in Kenya in June 2019.
Some of the resources / notable references from this episode include:
1. Predicting refugee crisis in Africa using AI https://www.unhcr.org/innovation/how-artificial-intelligence-can-be-used-to-predict-africas-next-migration-crisis/
2. Heineken Banternator: https://babusinyoni.com/heineken-banternator/
3. Vosho App and Gqom AI : https://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/babusi-nyoni-making-ai-more-accessible-and-relevant
4. AI Gqom song by Babusi , listen on https://soundcloud.com/state-offf/ai-gqom-pt-ii?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1
5. Links to Tweets from the Heineken Banternator :https://twitter.com/Heineken/status/736659718781992960
6. Read More about Microsoft’s Tay bot on https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/microsoft-silences-its-new-a-i-bot-tay-after-twitter-users-teach-it-racism
This episode has been powered by What’s Good Studios Studios ( https://whatsgoodstudios.com/ )
Visit https://bit.ly/aik2020 for our website, newsletter, meetup page, social media pages and latest news. Which topics or guests from Africa would you like us to talk to in our next episode? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
Ai Kenya Podcast Episode 2: Artificial Intelligence in the future of work featuring Mike Cook
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7 years ago
Ai Kenya Podcast Episode 2: Artificial Intelligence in the future of work featuring Mike Cook
Work is changing due to automation and artificial intelligence, but it’s not going away. How will we make a living when machines are cheaper, faster and smarter than we are — machines that don’t take breaks or vacations, don’t get sick and don’t care about chatting with their colleagues about last night’s game?
In our second Ai Kenya podcast episode recorded in September 2018, we are joined by Mike Cook , Senior Manager, Center for the future of work at Cognizant Technology Solutions. We discuss Cognizant’s view on how artificial intelligence will affect the future of work as per their two publications: "What to do when machines do everything" & “21 jobs of the Future”. We also touch on regulation in artificial intelligence worldwide and penetration of artificial intelligence in Kenya and Africa as a whole.
Read “What to do when machines do everything “ on https://www.cognizant.com/when-machines-do-everything
Read “21 jobs of the Future” publication by Cognizant on: https://www.cognizant.com/perspectives/21-jobs-of-the-future
Watch 21 more jobs of the future by Cognizant on: https://youtu.be/njwHmeYyfSc
Follow Mike Cook on Twitter on https://twitter.com/MikeMarkC
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Hailing from Bulawayo Zimbabwe, Babusi Nyoni, an AI innovator currently based in the Netherlands shares his journey building AI solutions ranging from an AI chatbot for Heineken, a dance app for Gqom, diagnosing Parkinson's disease and predicting Africa's next refugee crisis. With a high school diploma being his highest level of education, Babusi proves that lack of higher forms of education such as Masters degree or PhD does not hinder you from creating powerful solutions in the 4th Industrial revolution era, specifically within AI.
In his free time, Babusi experiments with different AI technologies to solve different problems or create new forms of art. In this episode, we touch on motivations for his creations, challenges he faces, the lessons learned, and why he was in Kenya in June 2019.
Some of the resources / notable references from this episode include:
1. Predicting refugee crisis in Africa using AI https://www.unhcr.org/innovation/how-artificial-intelligence-can-be-used-to-predict-africas-next-migration-crisis/
2. Heineken Banternator: https://babusinyoni.com/heineken-banternator/
3. Vosho App and Gqom AI : https://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/babusi-nyoni-making-ai-more-accessible-and-relevant
4. AI Gqom song by Babusi , listen on https://soundcloud.com/state-offf/ai-gqom-pt-ii?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1
5. Links to Tweets from the Heineken Banternator :https://twitter.com/Heineken/status/736659718781992960
6. Read More about Microsoft’s Tay bot on https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/microsoft-silences-its-new-a-i-bot-tay-after-twitter-users-teach-it-racism
This episode has been powered by What’s Good Studios Studios ( https://whatsgoodstudios.com/ )
Visit https://bit.ly/aik2020 for our website, newsletter, meetup page, social media pages and latest news. Which topics or guests from Africa would you like us to talk to in our next episode? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
