News & Events - Opinion: African 'clicks' outwit artificial intelligence

Taking African languages into the digital and the fourth industrial ages is our responsibility. We cannot just import technology, such as speech recognition machines, but we should adjust them to our particular environments, writes Professor Tshilidzi Marwala. The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) as well as the author of the book Artificial Intelligence for Rational Decision Making, Prof Marwala recently penned an opinion piece, 'African'clicks' outwit artificial intelligence', published by the Sunday Independent, 13 May 2018. IsiXhosa is an interesting language that has over 9 million speakers. It is a language often associated with clicks.