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.
Episode 1 Part one : Building an Ai powered digital assistant for health workers in Tanzania
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6 years ago
Episode 1 Part one : Building an Ai powered digital assistant for health workers in Tanzania
Our first episode features Ally Salim Jnr and Megan Allen, two co-founders who are working on Dr. Elsa, an artificial intelligence powered digital assistant for healthcare workers in Tanzania.
In the first part of this episode, we get to know Ally Salim Jnr and Megan Allen and how they started working on their health worker assistant solution that utilizes Ai to assist in the diagnosis of diseases. We talk about what Dr. Elsa is more in-depth, how Inspired ideas views artificial intelligence and how health workers interact with Dr. Elsa.
We also get to touch on what artificial intelligence techniques powers Dr. Elsa, the different ways Ai is being used in the medical sector, why they decided to apply neural networks in the diagnosis and their encounters with regulation and policy.
Listen to part two of this episode to hear more on the scientific paper written by Ally and the challenges faced in building and testing Dr Elsa with users.
Ai Kenya podcast
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.
