2023年8月15日

12个观点分享Kuda Musasiwa ZivAi成立,第一个人工智能聊天机器人开发专门为非洲人。Musasiwa作为津巴布韦的童年经历1980年代移民澳大利亚的他利用技术让全世界非洲散居侨民。搬到澳大利亚在年轻的时候,他的父亲,一个早期的计算机先驱,Musasiwa发现自己唯一的黑人学生面临歧视。这外人的经历启发Musasiwa支持非洲同胞在海外的终生使命。从他的父亲学习计算机基础知识后,Musasiwa获得计算机科学硕士学位。他开始数码创业促进全球连接和社区在津巴布韦。这使得Musasiwa创建ZivAi——人工智能聊天机器人为津巴布韦缺乏ChatGPT等工具。尽管有令人印象深刻的技能,津巴布韦的经济壁垒阻止青年能达到自己的潜能。Musasiwa设计ZivAi协助当地企业通过整合支付渠道,制裁和费用阻碍传统汇款。虽然利用开源组件,ZivAi非洲语言和用例为重点。 Musasiwa wants the chatbot to support rural students in their native tongues. This requires the tricky integration of African language datasets, like Facebook’s translation corpus. Lacking Big Tech resources, Musasiwa’s scrappy team forges ahead independently. ZivAi follows earlier bots, Shandu and Lucy, leveraged for a political campaign and customer support. But ChatGPT’s launch showed Musasiwa the power of large language models. With ChatGPT’s API restricted at home, he built ZivAi for broad African use. After six months, ZivAi has 18,000 users. A pan-African mega bot called DanAi is now in beta testing. But Musasiwa’s team lacks funding and resources in Zimbabwe to properly scale up. They relocated to South Africa despite difficulties in building ZivAi. The project’s modest $50,000 crowdfunding target reveals the immense obstacles. Yet Musasiwa remains optimistic that quality African AI can drive progress on the continent. Overall, Musasiwa’s tireless efforts exemplify using technology to uplift communities and bypass unfair limitations. Despite constraints, he ingeniously carved an AI path anchored in Africa’s needs and languages. Musasiwa’s vision persists in empowering youth to achieve their potential.