Kenya among countries picked for artificial intelligence research

A scholarship programme seeking to nurture talent in technological research in Africa's public universities has been launched. The three-year programme aims to meet the rising demand for expertise in responsible artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the continent. While machine learning encompasses the study of computer algorithms and use of data, artificial intelligence involves the simulation of human intelligence by machines, usually computer system. The scholarship programme will support selected scholars to undertake PhD research in AI and ML in African universities, and early career academics to strengthen their research and development capacities in the two areas. Murang'a County to give dairy firm to farmers Sacco What Matiang'i didn't reveal on deployment of police officers The initiative, dubbed the A14D Africa scholarship, is implemented by the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) based in Kenya in partnership with Kwame Nkrumah University in Ghana, University of Linkoping, Sweden, University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal, University of California, Human Sciences Research Council and Institute for Humanities in Africa based in South Africa and the University of Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique.