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Africa: Why Africa Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence
AXN, 28 March 2018
Machines might scare policymakers from Brussels to Washington, but artificial intelligence could yield a significant developmental dividend in the developing world. In African… Read more »
African Expert Network (Washington, DC)
Why Africa Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the capacity to add value at the individual, small business, and the large corporate level alike across Africa. Ghanaian entrepreneur and the co-founder SuperFluid Labs, Timothy Kotin, argues that "one of the most transformative applications of AI is in financial technology." AI and machine learning, "whereby algorithms make predictions and improve based on large amounts of data, could light a path out of poverty for two billion unbanked adults worldwide by helping traditional lenders approve loans using hundreds of non-traditional data points," writes Kotin. Read more.
Timothy Kotin is a Ghanaian entrepreneur and the co-founder SuperFluid Labs, a data analytics platform based in Ghana and Kenya.
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