Mauritius set out its national AI strategy in 2018, the first by an African country. Since then, over a dozen…
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When I was growing up, teachers would assign research papers that required going to the library, or later, searching for…
If you are fortunate enough to have a ticket to an event at Madison Square Garden in New York –…
One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centres is that artificial…
ChattyBear, a soft, brown-furred teddy bear, begins every conversation with a jubilant, “Hello, my buddy!” No longer the province of…
Globally, agriculture faces mounting pressures. These are driven by climate change, land degradation, labour shortages, supply chain disruptions and the demand for food from a growing…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of everyday newsroom work across Africa. It has entered quietly through routine tasks such as transcription,…
A peacock feather in sunlight shifts from blue to green to bronze as you turn it. Photograph it, and this…
What happens to language when a growing amount of text published in the press, online and on social media is…
When you ask a large language model a question, the reply may include falsehoods, and if you challenge those statements…