IMANI – Ghana’s Vice President Sellom Branty has called on the government to redesign government systems and structures to take full advantage of artificial intelligence (AI).
He cited the IMF Index report on countries’ AI readiness, which placed Ghana in the bottom third quadrant of the index, indicating that our country is far from being prepared for advances in artificial intelligence. he pointed out.
He said the government’s insistence on introducing the human element despite the presence of automated machines boils down to procurement benefits rather than efficiency.
“For example, in service industries where we just need to perform a simple service, we like inefficiencies to exist in order for us to make a profit, or for some party to make a profit, so people “There has been an over-emphasis on the elements. This is not being done in the name of procurement benefits, it is not being done in the name of efficiency,” he said.
Speaking on the Joy Super Morning Show, he called on governments to take the lead in integrating AI into government organizations to improve efficiency.
“Right now, we are at a tipping point when it comes to AI. If we actually start using some of these systems and decide to approach it intentionally, we are starting to see very important We are at a tipping point that will dramatically change our environment.
“The IMF report that Winston and you discussed this morning actually shows that: [inaudible] Ghana is in the low income category and our readiness for Ai is quite low. In an index of 125 countries, Japan is in the bottom quadrant or about the bottom third, and our system has reached the stage where it is designed to take full advantage of the original use of AI. “We haven’t,” he said.
He said countries and entire continents need to build local datasets to feed AI models, as most AI technologies are currently made by and for Western audiences. I did.
“The problem here, or our problem in Ghana and Africa, is that we haven’t built enough datasets to feed into AI models to generate things that are relevant to our environment.
“So even now, if you look at a lot of these AI systems, they are culturally or informationally more attuned to the Western way of looking at things, or representing the American or European way of looking at things.
“And we see very little nuance in how we process African views and our ways of thinking, our ideas, our language, our culture, etc. Beyond that, we see it in different ways. “You have to,” he said.
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