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Homegrown AI seeks solutions to local challenges

Thinking forward: Muchuchuti sees AI as a game-changer in solving local development challenges. PIC: MORERI SEJSKGOMO
Thinking forward: Muchuchuti sees AI as a game-changer in solving local development challenges. PIC: MORERI SEJSKGOMO

The recent launch of ChatGPT, the widely popular and free-to-access Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot, has raised global awareness of the revolutionary potential the technology holds. While their global peers have the luxury of creating AI for fun, such as altering images, local AI engineers are working on solving development challenges, reports Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI

While it has been around for a long while, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dominating public discourse in technology globally, as the roaring success of ChatGPT and its subsequent updates have shown the world-changing potential of the computer science.

So pervasive are AI’s uses and adaptability across professions, sectors, and every aspect of life, that regulators across the world are scrambling to restrain the power of the computer science and control what can be done with it.

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