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I'm really not sure there's much of an investor interest in helping Africans train their own AIs, your data center costs will be way higher in Africa. And the t
by anonylizard 3y ago
I'm really not sure there's much of an investor interest in helping Africans train their own AIs, your data center costs will be way higher in Africa. And the talent pool there to help with AI is still very small.
There will be a large interest in selling AI to Africans, GPT-4 today, lightly modified, can already radically improve African education. The vastly underpaid and overworked teachers no longer need to waste time in preparing lessons, they just need to control the classroom and perform assessments. Also GPT-4 probably dominates your average English tutor in Africa...
The problem is the cost, a GPT-4 subscription is far beyond the means of an average African. The bottleneck is with server-side inference costs, once that is solved, I expect a AI gold rush in Africa, where western companies compete to sell AI subscription services. Your average African already owns a cheap andrioid phone with 3g connection, which is good enough for an AI chatbot.