Google takes on 'Africa's challenges' with first AI centre in Ghana

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An artificial intelligence research laboratory was recently opened by Google in Ghana.

This illustration picture taken on April 29, 2018, shows the Google logo displayed on a screen and reflected on a tablet in Paris.GHANA - An artificial intelligence research laboratory opened by Google in Ghana, the first of its kind in Africa, will take on challenges across the continent, researchers say.

"Africa has many challenges where the use of AI could be beneficial, sometimes even more than in other places," Google's head of AI Accra, Moustapha Cisse, told AFP at the centre's official opening this week.Similar research centres have already opened in cities around the world including Tokyo, Zurich, New York and Paris.

Cisse, an expert from Senegal, said he hoped specialist engineers and AI researchers would collaborate with local organisations and policymakers.

 

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