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Final day in Nairobi. Had a visit to the Safaricom Data Science & AI team members under the leadership of Charlotte Kepadisa. Spreading the fire of AfricanAI #AfricanMachineLearning

Supremely honoured to be featured by my PhD Alma Mater @RutgersU -> Ways Rutgers Is Shaping the AI Revolution https://www.rutgers.edu/news/ways-rutgers-shaping-ai-revolution #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP

Two data scientist positions in Berlin!

Come and work at the Robert Koch Institute in collaboration with the World Health Organization Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. The project aims at improving the relevance of online media monitoring for public health intelligence through NLP and MLOps. 1/2

#jobs #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP #AIForGood #DataScience #Engineering #MachineLearning #NLP #OpenSource #OSS #Programming #PyLadies #Python #RLadies #RSE #RStats #WomenInSTEM

Tech jobs at the World Health Organization in Berlin, Germany. See thread above. 6/6

#jobs #GetFediHired #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP #AIForGood #DataScience #Engineering #MachineLearning #NLP #OpenSource #OSS #Programming #PyLadies #Python #RLadies #RSE #RStats #WomenInSTEM

After many years as organiser for #TEDxRutgers, finally a speaker for @TEDxPretoria

Let's go!!!!

#AfricanNLP
#AfricanMachineLearning

This is my response to Shakir's (fellow Indaba co-founder and trustee) question during the #DLI2023: "What do you do when all of your dreams have come true?"

*One Fifty Four to Everything, Everywhere, All at Once* After the 2023 Deep Learning Indaba https://www.vima.co.za/2023/09/15/one-fifty-four-to-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-after-the-2023-deep-learning-indaba/

#DLI2023
#AfricanMachineLearning

My Keynote, on AI Policy in Africa, from IndabaX Rwanda 2023 at #ICLR2023 is now available to view online. Thank you for the organisers of IndabaX Rwanda and Black in AI for having me.

https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/14362

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
#AfricanMachineLearning

A great day for Grassroots AI on the African continent. @[email protected] wins the 2023 Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity https://calls.ars.electronica.art/2023/prix/winners/10147/

@[email protected] at @[email protected] is proud to be a partner to this initiative.

#AfricanMachineLearning
#AfricanNLP
#NLProc

Presenting this morning at the University of Pretoria @[email protected] Africa Week 2023 <> Talking on "Is Community all you need?" - Touching on @[email protected] @[email protected] #AfricanMachineLearning etc.

You can watch online. In the session 9:00 to 10:40 https://events.universityofpretoria.live/africa-week-2023-virtual/

Some of the posters at the #AfricaNLP workshop at #ICLR2023

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Great meeting all the young #AfricanMachineLearning researchers
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Having interesting times and discussions with colleagues at @iclr_conf
https://twitter.com/bonadossou/status/1654141524312051715

AI tools open up a world of African languages - African Business https://african.business/2023/03/technology-information/ai-tools-open-up-a-world-of-african-languages #WhyWeFight #NLProc #AfricanNLP #AfricanMachineLearning

Article and Podcast <> SA Data Science whizz who wants to solve Africa’s ‘tough problems’ with AI – Prof Vukosi Marivate https://www.biznews.com/good-hope-project/2023/03/23/sa-data-science-whizz-solve-africas-tough-prof-vukosi-marivate
#AfricaNLP #AfricanMachineLearning @LelapaAI @UPTuks @DSFSI_Research

Thrilled to share: I am part of the 2023 cohort of Young Global Leaders. Eager to collaborate with & gain insights from fellow members of the community, as well and advocate for the advancement of #AfricanMachineLearning & #AfricanNLP
#YGL23
@UPTuks @LelapaAI
@DSFSI_Research
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We are delighted to unveil the #YGL Class of 2023. From courageous journalists to savvy entrepreneurs, this year's class is packed with brilli…
https://twitter.com/YGLvoices/status/1635552264977801217

We will soon be announcing an application process to fund up to 20 interdisciplinary scholars, with special focus on early career and emerging scholars, to join us at the University of Pretoria in July 2024.

#AfricanNLP #AfricanMachineLearning #GenerativeAI

Support @MasakhaneNLP financially through - Open Collective. Donate, Support! #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNlp https://opencollective.com/masakhane#category-CONNECT

CEO @tamati_biskit and COO @alienelf of @LelapaAI on @SABCNews Morning Live.

LelapaAI launches app to enrich under-represented African languages: Pelonomi Moiloa & Jade Abbott - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIpzCGv3dr0

Find out more https://lelapa.ai/

##AfricanNLP
#AfricanMachineLearning

Comparing Africa-centric Models to OpenAI's GPT3.5 - Lelapa https://lelapa.ai/comparing-africa-centric-models-to-openais-gpt3-5-2/

#LLM #LanguageModels #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP

Gave a Keynote talk at @DeepIndabaX_ZA (hosted @UPTuks) on "#AfricanML: Where to next?".
Touch on
* Work at #AfricanNLP @DSFSI_Research
* Community matters in building #AfricanMachineLearning
* What to do next

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10LiryOO1znvchiJ3t6oEKpUnqIBWRaiE2ClabNh4EH0/edit?usp=sharing
Recording available later.

Last newsletter for 2022 is out <> DS@UP🚀 #33: 2022 - Don't Forget to Rewind https://tinyletter.com/datascience-up/letters/ds-up-33-2022-don-t-forget-to-rewind

* Full list of all speakers + videos of the 2022 Seminar series
* Highlights from the lab
* Links to our 2022 publications

#AfricanMachineLearning #NLProc #DataScience

Congratulations to Nicolle Garber for winning one of the best paper awards at the 2022 Pan-African Artificial Intelligence and Smart Systems Conference - https://paaiss.com

The paper: "Conversational Pattern Mining using Motif Detection" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06846

Well deserved by Nicolle. This was a very interesting and tough project she worked on as part of her Masters in Big Data Science University of Pretoria

#datascience #AfricaNLP #AfricanNLP #AfricanMachineLearning

For everyone at #NeurIPS2022, enjoy. Hope to see you in the future. Will miss @black_in_ai and the wonderful interactions. Many of the #AfricanMachineLearning community are there. Also enjoy the Jazz!

SA’s indigenous languages must all be fully developed and featured in digital resources – a UP professor says | Universities South Africa https://www.usaf.ac.za/sas-indigenous-languages-must-all-be-fully-developed-and-featured-in-digital-resources-a-up-professor-says/

#AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP
#NLProc

A memorable #TBT Professor Vukosi Marivate - Riendzo ri lehile: Tackling Natural Language Processing for African languages to make better sense of our world”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2GCuzFu43c

Thank you to @DSFSI_Research @MasakhaneNLP @DeepIndaba
#AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP
#NLProc

Hey #AfricanMachineLearning folks.

New deadlines added https://mldsafrica.co.za/

On #FTX, just imagine now many of the worlds wickedest problems could have had teams funded or dedicated to them. Heck thinking what a fraction of that money could have done for #AfricanMachineLearning and #AfricanNLP? Anyway, we build.

Do it again😃.

I post, therefore I am..

I am Vukosi Marivate, Chair of #DataScience at University of Pretoria, South Africa. Hold PhD CS from Rutgers University, BSC & MSc EE from Wits University.

Work to understand the world through Data & build AI models for African Languages. PI for Data Science for Social Impact Research Group https://dsfsi.github.io

Changing the world at the Deep Learning Indaba and MasakhaneNLP

#Introduction #BlackMastodon #AfricanNLP #AfricanMachineLearning