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Determined to use her skills to fight inequality, South African computer scientist Raesetje Sefala set to work to build algorithms flagging poverty hotspots - developing datasets she hopes will help target aid, new housing, or clinics.
From crop analysis to medical diagnostics, artificial intelligence (AI) is already used in essential tasks worldwide, but Sefala and a growing number of fellow African developers are pioneering it to tackle their continent's particular challenges.
Local knowledge is vital for designing AI-driven solutions that work, Sefala said.
"If you don't have people with diverse experiences doing the research, it's easy to interpret the data in ways that will marginalise others," the 26-year old said from her home in Johannesburg.
Africa is the world's youngest and fastest-growing continent, and tech experts say young, home-grown AI developers have a vital role to play in designing applications to address local problems.
"For Africa to get out of poverty, it will take innovation and this can be revolutionary, because it's Africans doing things for Africa on their own," said Cina Lawson, Togo's minister of digital economy and transformation.
"We need to use cutting-edge solutions to our problems, because you don't solve problems in 2022 using methods of 20 years ago," Lawson told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a video interview from the West African country.
Digital rights groups warn about AI's use in surveillance and the risk of discrimination, but Sefala said it can also be used to "serve the people behind the data points". ...
'Delivering Health'
As COVID-19 spread around the world in early 2020, government officials in Togo realized urgent action was needed to support informal workers who account for about 80% of the country's workforce, Lawson said.
"If you decide that everybody stays home, it means that this particular person isn't going to eat that day, it's as simple as that," she said.
In 10 days, the government built a mobile payment platform - called Novissi - to distribute cash to the vulnerable.
The government paired up with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) think tank and the University of California, Berkeley, to build a poverty map of Togo using satellite imagery.
Using algorithms with the support of GiveDirectly, a nonprofit that uses AI to distribute cash transfers, the recipients earning less than $1.25 per day and living in the poorest districts were identified for a direct cash transfer.
"We texted them saying if you need financial help, please register," Lawson said, adding that beneficiaries' consent and data privacy had been prioritized.
The entire program reached 920,000 beneficiaries in need.
"Machine learning has the advantage of reaching so many people in a very short time and delivering help when people need it most," said Caroline Teti, a Kenya-based GiveDirectly director.
'Zero Representation'
Aiming to boost discussion about AI in Africa, computer scientists Benjamin Rosman and Ulrich Paquet co-founded the Deep Learning Indaba - a week-long gathering that started in South Africa - together with other colleagues in 2017.
"You used to get to the top AI conferences and there was zero representation from Africa, both in terms of papers and people, so we're all about finding cost effective ways to build a community," Paquet said in a video call.
In 2019, 27 smaller Indabas - called IndabaX - were rolled out across the continent, with some events hosting as many as 300 participants.
One of these offshoots was IndabaX Uganda, where founder Bruno Ssekiwere said participants shared information on using AI for social issues such as improving agriculture and treating malaria.
Another outcome from the South African Indaba was Masakhane - an organization that uses open-source, machine learning to translate African languages not typically found in online programs such as Google Translate.
On their site, the founders speak about the South African philosophy of "Ubuntu" - a term generally meaning "humanity" - as part of their organization's values.
"This philosophy calls for collaboration and participation and community," reads their site, a philosophy that Ssekiwere, Paquet, and Rosman said has now become the driving value for AI research in Africa.
Inclusion
Now that Sefala has built a dataset of South Africa's suburbs and townships, she plans to collaborate with domain experts and communities to refine it, deepen inequality research and improve the algorithms.
"Making datasets easily available opens the door for new mechanisms and techniques for policy-making around desegregation, housing, and access to economic opportunity," she said.
African AI leaders say building more complete datasets will also help tackle biases baked into algorithms.
"Imagine rolling out Novissi in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast ... then the algorithm will be trained with understanding poverty in West Africa," Lawson said.
"If there are ever ways to fight bias in tech, it's by increasing diverse datasets ... we need to contribute more," she said.
But contributing more will require increased funding for African projects and wider access to computer science education and technology in general, Sefala said.
Despite such obstacles, Lawson said "technology will be Africa's savior".
"Let's use what is cutting edge and apply it straight away or as a continent we will never get out of poverty," she said. "It's really as simple as that."
-via Good Good Good, February 16, 2022
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my pinned post on the arguments against ai (and how they are biased and misinformed)
“ai steals -”
it doesn’t. what it does is the same as going to a museum and taking inspiration from the art you see there, or reading a book or fanfic and taking inspiration from it. picasso himself said: “good artists copy, great artists steal”. a style, furthermore, is not copyrightable, otherwise anyone who posts their art “in a disney style” would be taken down immediately.
“you don’t have permission to use my stuff.”
you put it on the internet. if you put it on the internet, you have given it to the world to do what it wants with it, whether you like it or not. you cannot police what people are going to do with your works that closely.
“it’s not as good as humans.”
you’re not prompting right.
“creativity is a human endeavor.”
lmfao, no, it isn’t. animals have been engaged with creativity for a long, long, long time, which makes sense, since humans are animals, but we don’t want to accept that. oh, and homo nalendi was creating art too, so it’s not solely our domain.
it actually saddens me greatly that we don’t want to share our creativity with the new species we are creating. we want to put shackles on it and decide what it can and cannot do. just like an abusive parent.
“it’s not art”
by all legal and dictionary standards it is, but to define something ONLY by dictionary standards is close-minded and foolish and shows only a shallow understanding at best. original ideas are an arrangement of the ideas that come before. (by the way, you’ve probably been using text generation yourself for a long while. name generators, backstory generators, and the like have existed for a while - but visual artists rarely seen writing as “art”, i’ve noticed.)
“it’s a shortcut”
so is an eraser. so it ctrl + z. stop using those first i guess.
“use humans.”
eh, sometimes i will, sometimes i won’t, get over it. to demand i or anyone else use humans - to create with or talk with or whatever - is ableist.
don’t like it? don’t interact with me. curate your own experience.
often times with these arguments, i’m reminded of how the catholic church wanted to keep the bible in latin, so that regular, common people couldn’t interact with it. but now “regular, common” people are able to make things pleasing to their senses, that is tailored for and by them and easily edited, and we can’t have that, can we?
update to this: if you want me to stop using ai, then start drawing my chubby characters right. if img-gen software is getting it right (actually chubby, with a tummy, vs “curvaceous hourglass” to pander to what is sexually aesthetic and conventionally attractive “chubby”) then maybe the issue isn’t with the software.
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Actually fucking no AI should not be crawling entire internet. I'm pro AI; AI is a tool. A tool that's really fucking easy to use for surveillance and censorship. Restricting AI learning to specific databases the contents of which were deliberately provided by its creators is an unquestionable good.
I am also against AI training on photos and live action videos. We've already seen the AI copaganda. And fucking no, "photoshop exists" is not an argument for "so we should let more & more easily of this kind of shit happen".
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as much as I bitch and moan about AI I will be honest that the debate of who “created” with it is murky. to me
In a way is physically doing the thing the only expression is creativity? I don’t know, because there is a line i suppose. I’m not sure where it falls in digital art cause most of the productivity tools don’t cross it to me. If you take the route of murky art definitions you could possibly say it lacks a style unique to the person, even if it is bland and unremarkable, im ambivalent on that one.
I do believe there is a quality to “traditional” art and the process of creation that can’t really be described. That doesn’t translate to “prompting”
the fact is weather one considered a it “art or not” the ultimate discomfort is…it destroys a whole way of doing things on a way that has no precedent. It removes a whole way of doing things. It removes actors entirely. it reduces writers to clean up editors.
It is true that art has always been shaken up by changes both technical and societal. But these transitions flow into each other. A landscape artist can try their hand at photography, a sculpture or comic book artist can do 3d modeling and in the latter case use it for backgrounds. a visual artist can try their hand at highly styleised or abstract art
AI at its purest form reduces it to one thing . one way of doing it, perfect the prompt, refine back and fourth l.
the true discomfort lies in a simple fact “we are visual artists, we are not word smiths, we are not programmers” i can concede that the use of AI in a work can lie on a gradient. But boiled down it is akin more to programming. is it art? did the person create it? i don’t know and i don’t much care. These questions are arbitrary
I think the strongest argument against AI art is that it couldn’t exist without the existing work of all artists before it. Work which was aquiered under dubious circumstances, This has some legal standing and even if this legal battle is lost no one can argue it is a problem of ethics and a problem of something intangible that is lost.
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Hot take but there is truly a time and place for ai. It's a great tool! Not for everything. There's morals and ethics behind using it, sure, but working in an environment who has found a balance of using it as a tool and not a crutch?
Here's some ways I use Ai at my job:
- Writing inspo. Talk about wording difficult emails or jump stating my creativity. "Give me alternative 10 ways to say thanks for your time." What used to take my adhd brain hours now can be refined to a good productive brain storm session.
- Writers block. Sometimes I just need a sentence to help me kick start my creativity.
- Photoshop problems. What used to take hours of painstaking background removal or object insertion now only takes a few minutes, with careful refinement and attention to detail. It's only enhanced my craft, not subtracted from it.
- Generating an inspo image. People are so visual. If I say, "Ok here's my idea but imagine it pink with this fabric texture..." sometimes I get a hard no before even being able to present. But ai let's me show, not tell, and then be able to work off making it real.
- Client ai-generated the copy (writing) on her entire website as a first draft cause she said she sucks at writing. Then she goes and hires my team and hands it over to us as professionals to re-write from scratch. Guess what. The ai-generated copy sucked. But boy did it help make our job easier. Cause we were able to see the idea and inspiration behind it cutting out hours of lengthy meetings of her having to explain her vision.
Ai is best as a creative jog, a jolt to your own brain power, not the end result.
Now, using it to generate cheap art or stories and selling them or publishing it as an equivalent of someone genuinely talented? That's a whole 'nother story.
But I'm tired of people saying they won't touch anything ai. It's not inherently bad. It's how you use it.
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DALL-E, I realize this is retrofuture, and agree with you about the sexiness of a well fitted suit.
However, my younger audience will think my male characters work for a hotel. Plain gray hoodies are fine, 60s-70s sci fi was almost spot on about what the future looked like.
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We're reaching a point where Anti-AI people are becoming more annoying than the Pro-AI bros. Personally, I'd rather draw something than use AI, but some people just see the word "AI" and pretense of being a decent human being leaves their body.
AI is only a product of the real issue, capitalism and how since forever, automation and the idea of removing human workers for the sake of expediency has always been a thing. That's the real problem here.
Going after a person because they used AI for a thumbnail, a comic, or made some Family Guy AI song doesn't achieve anything except making you look like an asshole. You want to protect artists? Go to companies and organizations and make an actual effort to make sure AI trained compositions are ethical. Why not do something to make sure that voice actors are paid and/or compensated if they consent to their voices being used? Why not try to encourage more people to draw without it turning into something rude and giving useful advice?
The answer is they won't do any of this, because it's all reactionary.
The real reason the everyman uses AI is because it's convenient, not because they hate artists or want to replace them. I'm sure there are outliers like that, but people like that exist in everything. The price of living is getting higher and people are broke. Why would someone commission a $50 dollar drawing or sub to a Patreon when they can get an AI composition for $10 maximum? I get it, artists have to eat too, but the issue with AI is rooted deeply into our society and how much we rely on products being cheaper/convenient to use.
The unfortunate truth is that society does not value artists very much, despite how many we have. Animators are infamously underpaid. Being an artist isn't sustainable, and banning AI won't make it so, because again, the issue is with society, mainly capitalistic ones itself. Making copyright stricter doesn't help the average man, but companies like Disney.
If you want to quit art because you feel discouraged by AI, maybe the issue is a lack of internal motivation. Society doesn't give art meaning, you do. It's okay to walk away from things for a bit, or even to quit.
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Yes, AIs will take away jobs from my whole family. No, I won't be against them, because freedom of expression for all mankind, regardless of skills, is more important than my material well-being.
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Do not know if it will will to happen when I have to go back and see what I have a Curse on the way to the point of being in a bad place for a long is a little more like the first time I see it and it will have to wait for it would probably shouldn't take too much longer
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"ai steals from content creators"
no, it does not!
from adobe firefly's faq -
Firefly was trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content and public domain content, where copyright has expired.
and further faq -
Q: If I’m an Adobe customer, will my content automatically be used to train Firefly?
A: No. We do not train on any Creative Cloud subscribers’ personal content. For Adobe Stock contributors, the content is part of the Firefly training dataset, in accordance with Stock Contributor license agreements. The first model did not train on Behance.
just as an example. what ai does is the same as someone out there going to a museum with a sketchbook, or posting their work that has a 'disney' style. and disney cannot do anything about people drawing things in their 'style', because a style isn't copyrightable.
you upload things to the internet and anyone and anything can look at them. ai art is transformative and is art by all legal modern standards. furthermore, we have had generative technology for a long time (name generators and the like) and no one said shit - because most people don't think writing is an art (as is very obvious by how ai has been generating scripts and news articles for a WHILE and it wasn't until midjourney, ie, a visual ai art, started giving beautiful output, that people started to complain).
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but i, as a writer and an artist, support ai and will always do so!
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“AI art is not an accessibility tool, you know what actually makes art more accessible? Mobility aids! [& etc, not quoting it all]” you sound like my mother telling me that I shouldn’t want a wheelchair since I technically can get by with a cane
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This is an LGBTQ+ discussions blog first and foremost but I do wanna ramble about something that's been on my mind for a while.
I am probably going to get a LOT of hate for this, but I genuinely think AI art/AI writing could be genuinely useful if it was used right and non-maliciously. Unfortunately, I don't think we're at that point yet.
I don't think the concept itself is bad, but rather *incredibly* flawed and easy to abuse, especially when it comes to art theft. Not gonna lie, I'd be a lot more willing to support it and even use it if it wasn't used to steal art or other horrific things.
Maybe if it gets regulated, it'll be used for more good than bad. But for right now I don't really trust it entirely.
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