Tag: AI
The bright side of super intelligence
The idea of machines turning into man’s worst enemy is not a new one. Whole movies have been devoted to this theme, from Space Odyssey 2000, where the computer HAL “eliminates”...
Farmers use drones, AI to take security into their own hands
As the provincial government scrambles to set up structures to improve rural safety, farmers are looking to technology to boost security in the face of recent farm attacks and related agricultural...
Man versus machine. How humans tackled AI – and lost
2018 was most definitely the year in which AI and Machine Learning (ML) took the lion’s share of technology media headlines. Like social media, virtual reality, drones, and cloud services before...
Afraid a digital world means less human intelligence? Don’t be
Last year’s highly publicised Artificial Intelligence (AI) debate, between tech giants Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and more recently, Bill Gates brought to the fore some questions at the back of everyone’s minds: how sustainable...
Will Africa be digitally relevant in the next 10 years?
By 2025, jobs which were common place in 2015 will no longer exist. Students graduating in 2016 will have obsolete qualifications for which there will no longer be a profession by...
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Western Cape teachers exposed to careers in the agricultural sector
Close to 100 teachers throughout South Africa’s Western Cape province attended the Teachers’ Recognition Lunch on 6 June 2019 in Stellenbosch that was hosted...
