DeepSeek’s AI is cheap. Is this a game-changer for African startups?
Donnerstag, 20. Februar 2025 · 41 min
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Catherine Nzuki is joined by Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo, a fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation in the Governance Studies program at Brookings and a recent computer science Ph.D. graduate from Cornell University.
Dr. Okolo provides an overview of Africa’s AI industry (); DeepSeek and what it means for AI startups (); common misconceptions about AI development (); how to make AI safer for the global majority (); the AI safety landscape in Africa (); developing benchmarks to measure AI safety in Africa (); why reforming existing data governance is a pathway to AI regulation (); ethical approaches to developing language models (); the exploitation of workers that train and label AI models (); and leveraging available language models to build African language models ().
Dr. Okolo’s AI safety initiative: A new writing series: Re-envisioning AI safety through global majority perspectives (brookings.edu/articles/a-new-writing-series-re…).
February 19 event on AI Safety at Brookings: Globalizing Perspectives on AI Safety (brookings.edu/events/globalizing-perspectives-…)
