AI Conversations: Africa in Focus

In this episode of AI Conversations: Africa in Focus , we tackle a fundamental but often overlooked question: Why are you building that ML system in the first place? Segun explores the critical distinction between building machine learning models for research versus deploying them to solve real business problems. Too often, teams celebrate marginal gains in accuracy while ignoring whether their mo...

Join this conversation as we unpack the science, politics, and future of AI in this exciting and insightful episode! In this episode of AI Conversations: Africa in Focus , I dive into one of the most significant developments in the AI landscape — the release of the DeepSeek model series. This revolutionary model has achieved reasoning capacities comparable to OpenAI's O1 model series but at a...

Welcome back to the podcast! After a brief hiatus, we’re excited to return with renewed energy, a broader vision, and a new identity. In this episode, we address the reasons behind our break, reflect on our journey so far, and introduce the rebranding of our show from “Applying AI: The AI in Africa Podcast” to “AI Conversations: Africa in Focus.” We’ll continue to explore how artificial intelligen...

In this episode, we introduce the pressing issues plaguing our nation and what transformative solutions AI could bring to them, from the farmer-herder crisis to unemployment and insurgency. These challenges, deeply rooted in various sectors including agriculture, education, security, finance, and industry, have evolved over time, often unnoticed until they become full-blown crises. However, the ad...

In this latest episode of Applying AI: The AI in Africa Podcast, Segun welcomes listeners to the first episode of the year 2024, continuing the discussion from the previous episode. The focus is on the challenges of scaling African businesses with artificial intelligence and the importance of identifying the impact before attempting to scale. In this episode, Segun delves into the essential questi...

I recently participated in discussions on artificial intelligence in an event I attended in Lagos; Moonshot by techcabal. The discussions on AI centered around scaling the impact of artificial intelligence in Africa and it then occurred to me that what is there to scale when we're just getting started with artificial intelligence and when many organizations and companies are still in the infan...

Businesses now revolve around the use of technology and as far as we're concerned artificial intelligence is at the center of this business revolution so in this newest episode of Applying AI: The AI in Africa podcast, the host discusses how business owners and managers can leverage on AI to achieve the most results in their business. The host also discusses the myths about artificial intellig...

The massive deployment of hate speech and fake news in Nigeria's digital space is too unbecoming; during the famous EndSARS protests, we saw how it led to the destruction of both public and private properties in Lagos Nigeria. There's, therefore, an urgent need to either collectively or individually rise up and wage a war against fake news. In this episode, Segun discusses how machine-lear...

Increasing sales and revenues are believed to be the single most important thing for every business person. In this episode, Segun explains how machine learning and artificial intelligence can drive innovative sales and revenues. How machine learning can model customers' purchasing behavior and patterns so perfectly to predict what other products in a store could interest customers in buying....

What are the fundamental issues in machine learning that must be reconciled and what appears to be the pitfall that machine learning engineers must avoid while developing a machine learning model? in this episode, the host cut right into the critical questions that must be asked before any artificial intelligence developer jump on any project and why the questions must be asked. He further discuss...

If you check the world around you, What you see is chaos, kidnappings, and maimings. What our world has turned to is becoming alarming regarding security. In this episode, Segun looks at the foundational structure of all known crimes and draws a pattern that makes computer vision the technology that is caught in the middle, and why they're the perfect fit to address various security challenges. &n...

If you look at the world around you today you'll see that it's becoming scarier and this is due to the growing insecurity while we all can agree that there are more security lapses in Africa however, insecurity is all across the world so, in today's episode, Segun emphasizes the need to put technology and indeed computer vision in the forefront of the war against insecurity, Segun talks about comp...

In this latest episode, Segun will take you through the application of artificial intelligence in the banking system, and how it’s been used to detect credit card fraud. The numerous challenges also include the high rate of loan defaulters, and how artificial intelligence and its branches of machine learning and deep learning could be deployed to address them. Anyone anywhere especially in Nigeria...

 In this episode, Segun focuses on the pressing challenges in real estate in Africa, and how artificial intelligence can help address them, he also looks at some ai models that could be developed for some of the issues investors are currently facing in real estate, the type of data to be collected and how these ai models will operate in such a way that the problem identified would be solved....

In this maiden episode of Applying AI: The AI in Africa Podcast - Segun shared his experiences in artificial intelligence and took a swipe into Africa's tech ecosystem and why we're where we are with technology also, he shared what he hopes to achieve as host of this podcast.