Tag Archives: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Google today announced the opening of applications for the 8th cohort of its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program. This cohort will have a strong focus on startups leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to address critical challenges and unlock new opportunities across the continent. Startups are the …

…Stress the Need to Develop AI Solutions Inclusively …Make Case for AI Powered Smart Grids Nigeria’s power woes might finally see an end thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN) is urging the government to embrace AI-powered smart grids as a solution to …

Recognizing the ever-evolving media landscape, Nigerian telecommunications leader 9mobile has joined forces with tech giant Microsoft to empower journalists with the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This collaborative effort signifies a significant step towards revolutionizing the way news is gathered, produced, and disseminated in Nigeria. The recently concluded AI training …

By Anna Collard It is now possible to use a publicly available artificial chatbot, ChatGPT to generate a complete infection chain, possibly beginning with a spear phishing email written in entirely convincing, human-like language and eventually causing a complete takeover of a company’s computer systems, a cybersecurity danger. Researchers at …

Aside ChatGPT, there are several AI models that are similar to ChatGPT; BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is a pre-training approach that is used for natural language processing applications including sentiment analysis and question answering. BERT is generally utilized for language interpretation tasks as opposed to ChatGPT, which focuses …

The Federal of Nigeria says it has signed an agreement with tech giants, Huawei and CISCO to establish a minimum of 300 academies in Nigeria and to train a minimum of 30,000 citizens in advanced ICT. This is even as the country pushes its digital economy through partnerships with various …

The Federal government on Tuesday launched the National Policy on Fifth Generation Networks (5G) for Nigeria’s Digital Economy. Speaking at the launch presided over by President Mohammadu Buhari, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) said that the deployment of fifth generation (5G) network, “will …

The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has said that continuous dialogues between the regulator and its various licensees is central to finding lasting solutions to issues negatively impacting licensee’s compliance with extant regulations and challenging the growth of …

Union Bank Nigeria Plc has announced the call for entries into its “2021 Next Robotics Legend Programme,” which is part of the bank’s initiatives under its Edu360 umbrella meant to enhance digital learning and building the capacity of young Nigerian startups and inventors in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics as …

The Minister of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami presented memos on a Draft National Policy on Digital Identity for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria and a request for the construction of a Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre at the Federal Executive …