AI's next frontier isn't where you might expect | Hardy Pemhiwa
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Hardy Pemhiwa discusses how Africa is leveraging AI in unique ways to address local challenges.
With a billion mobile phone users and a median population age of 19, Africa isn't catching up to the AI revolution — it's writing an entirely different playbook, says business leader Hardy Pemhiwa. He shows how a generation of entrepreneurs is using AI to teach classes, triage patients and boost farm yields through the power of local compute, local data and local languages. Learn more about our flagship conference happening this April at attend.ted.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Host: TED Tech
Guest: Hardy Pemhiwa
Topics covered
- AI
- Africa
- entrepreneurship
- technology
- education
- healthcare
- agriculture
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Places: Africa
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