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...

It is estimated that 2.3 trillion gigabytes of data are created each day and the amount of new technical information is doubling every two years, with 43 trillion gigabytes of data expected to be created by 2020. How can organizations then leverage data science and machine learning to gain insights and solve problems from the data they generate? In our third Ai Kenya podcast episode recorded in October 2018, we talk to Celina Lee from Zindi, a company based in South Africa that is...

In the second part of the podcast we get to discuss what challenges Ally and Megan faced while working on Dr. Elsa. We also delve into understanding the scientific paper written by Ally titled 'Synthetic patient generation: Deep learning to generate new patient records' which was recently posted on Arxiv. They also share their advice to other startups that are trying to get into the Ai Space. Read Ally’s paper, Synthetic patient generation on https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06444. To follow...

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...

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...