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Mystery of Egypt's Giza pyramids deepens as hidden megastructure 4,000 feet below is revealed
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Archaeologists discover massive ancient Egyptian fortress
Excavations also revealed a large bread oven and fossilized dough. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. When you think of ancient Egypt, you might imagine towering pyramids, majestic temples, and the noseless Great Sphinx of Giza. But the iconic civilization produced many more architectural marvels than the monuments it's best known for today, and one such example has just come to light in the sands of the Sinai. Archaeologists working in the northern region of Sinai--the Egyptian peninsula bordering Israel--have discovered a military fort from ancient Egypt's New Kingdom era (1550-1077 BCE) along the Horus Military Road.
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I discovered secret tunnels below Egypt's Giza pyramids... and they may lead to a forgotten underworld
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Investigating Cultural Alignment of Large Language Models
AlKhamissi, Badr, ElNokrashy, Muhammad, AlKhamissi, Mai, Diab, Mona
The intricate relationship between language and culture has long been a subject of exploration within the realm of linguistic anthropology. Large Language Models (LLMs), promoted as repositories of collective human knowledge, raise a pivotal question: do these models genuinely encapsulate the diverse knowledge adopted by different cultures? Our study reveals that these models demonstrate greater cultural alignment along two dimensions -- firstly, when prompted with the dominant language of a specific culture, and secondly, when pretrained with a refined mixture of languages employed by that culture. We quantify cultural alignment by simulating sociological surveys, comparing model responses to those of actual survey participants as references. Specifically, we replicate a survey conducted in various regions of Egypt and the United States through prompting LLMs with different pretraining data mixtures in both Arabic and English with the personas of the real respondents and the survey questions. Further analysis reveals that misalignment becomes more pronounced for underrepresented personas and for culturally sensitive topics, such as those probing social values. Finally, we introduce Anthropological Prompting, a novel method leveraging anthropological reasoning to enhance cultural alignment. Our study emphasizes the necessity for a more balanced multilingual pretraining dataset to better represent the diversity of human experience and the plurality of different cultures with many implications on the topic of cross-lingual transfer.
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Case Studies of AI Policy Development in Africa
Diallo, Kadijatou, Smith, Jonathan, Okolo, Chinasa T., Nyamwaya, Dorcas, Kgomo, Jonas, Ngamita, Richard
Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires new ways of evaluating national technology use and strategy for African nations. We conduct a survey of existing 'readiness' assessments both for general digital adoption and for AI policy in particular. We conclude that existing global readiness assessments do not fully capture African states' progress in AI readiness and lay the groundwork for how assessments can be better used for the African context. We consider the extent to which these indicators map to the African context and what these indicators miss in capturing African states' on-the-ground work in meeting AI capability. Through case studies of four African nations of diverse geographic and economic dimensions, we identify nuances missed by global assessments and offer high-level policy considerations for how states can best improve their AI readiness standards and prepare their societies to capture the benefits of AI.
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War Has Already Hurt the Economies of Israel's Nearest Neighbors
"No one wants to invest, but Egypt is too big to fail," Mr. Landis said, explaining that the United States and I.M.F. are unlikely to let the country default on its 165 billion of foreign loans given its strategic and political importance. The drop in shipping traffic crossing into the Red Sea from the Suez Canal is the latest blow. Between January and August, Egypt brought in an average of 862 million per month in revenue from the canal, which carries 11 percent of global maritime trade. James Swanston, an emerging-markets economist at Capital Economics, said that according to the head of the Suez Canal Authority, traffic is down 30 percent this month from December and revenues are 40 percent weaker compared to 2023 levels. "That's the biggest spillover effect," he said.
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Machine Learning Research Trends in Africa: A 30 Years Overview with Bibliometric Analysis Review
Ezugwu, Absalom E., Oyelade, Olaide N., Ikotun, Abiodun M., Agushaka, Jeffery O., Ho, Yuh-Shan
The machine learning (ML) paradigm has gained much popularity today. Its algorithmic models are employed in every field, such as natural language processing, pattern recognition, object detection, image recognition, earth observation and many other research areas. In fact, machine learning technologies and their inevitable impact suffice in many technological transformation agendas currently being propagated by many nations, for which the already yielded benefits are outstanding. From a regional perspective, several studies have shown that machine learning technology can help address some of Africa's most pervasive problems, such as poverty alleviation, improving education, delivering quality healthcare services, and addressing sustainability challenges like food security and climate change. In this state-of-the-art paper, a critical bibliometric analysis study is conducted, coupled with an extensive literature survey on recent developments and associated applications in machine learning research with a perspective on Africa. The presented bibliometric analysis study consists of 2761 machine learning-related documents, of which 89% were articles with at least 482 citations published in 903 journals during the past three decades. Furthermore, the collated documents were retrieved from the Science Citation Index EXPANDED, comprising research publications from 54 African countries between 1993 and 2021. The bibliometric study shows the visualization of the current landscape and future trends in machine learning research and its application to facilitate future collaborative research and knowledge exchange among authors from different research institutions scattered across the African continent.
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LGBTQ dating app Grindr warns Egypt users of police-run accounts
A popular gay social networking application has said that it is issuing a warning to its users in Egypt, as police impersonate community members to target LGBTQ individuals. Users in Egypt will see the following warning appear in Arabic and English when they open the app: "We have been alerted that Egyptian police is actively making arrests of gay, bi, and trans people on digital platforms. They are using fake accounts and have also taken over accounts from real community members who have already been arrested and had their phones taken. Please take extra caution online and offline, including with accounts that may have seemed legitimate in the past." Egypt, though it technically does not outlaw homosexuality, frequently prosecutes members of the LGBTQ community on the grounds of "debauchery" or "violating public decency".
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Senior Executive - Media - Spark Foundry at Publicis Groupe - Cairo, Egypt
Spark Foundry is one of four global media agency brands within Publicis Media. The force of acceleration, or the speed of change is so strong today that it has the potential to leave industries including our own behind. So, at Spark Foundry we are working towards driving positive change. We are an Acceleration Agency. At Spark Foundry acceleration applies to every layer of our business.
AI for Africa, by Africa: A Call to Action for Inclusive and Ethical Artificial Intelligence Policies (1) - Institute of ICT Professionals, Ghana
From South Juba to Entebbe, from Marrakesh to Accra, on the cusp of technology in Africa, the need for responsible AI development and ethical data practices has never been more pressing. As technology continues to advance and shape the global economy, Africa is taking steps toward positioning itself as a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Investments and innovations in AI are on the rise across the continent, with a growing number of countries beginning to develop policies and strategies to harness the power of this transformative technology. Although only a few countries have officially adopted AI strategies and policies, many more are actively working towards defining their AI policies. As philosopher and economist Amartya Sen noted, 'Development requires the removal of major sources of unfreedom that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency.'
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