This week in AI

You might soon have the chance to turn your app idea into a reality, even if you don’t have the technical expertise to build it yourself Replit wants to make that easy.

Everything else you should know today, here is a summary of this week in AI.

AI & TECH NEWS

Generative AI Meetup in Arusha.

For the first time, the Generative AI meetup was held in Arusha after happening in Dar es Salaam for a long time. These meetups have helped a lot to grow the AI developers' community in Tanzania. Big thanks to the organizers, Rose Rwegasira , kalebu Gwalugano and many others. Sometimes, we may not notice the changes right away, but the benefits are far greater than what we can see. These meetups have helped grow our community and show the great potential in what we do. To stay updated on future meetups, follow Neurotech Africa, Rose Rwegasira , and kalebu Gwalugano , and subscribe to this newsletter for weekly updates.

A Recap of Tanzania Delegation in Deep Learning Indaba

A few days back the Deep Learning Indaba was held in Dakar, Senegal and more than 7+ Brilliant Tanzanians made it to attend. covering some of the breakthroughs made over there,

We would like to take this moment to congratulate Neema Mduma, PhD on receiving the Anta Diop Research Impact Award at Deep Learning Indaba . This award recognizes her outstanding contributions to advancing research in AI and agriculture, as well as her commitment to the communities that stand to benefit from this technology!

Loyani Loyani won the Best Poster Prize winners at the Deep Learning Indaba this year. This was his second time attending the Indaba (the first being in Ghana in 2023). Presenting his work titled "Deep learning quantuntification of tuta absoluta's damage on tomato plants". Loyani and fellow researchers are conducting studies to improve tomato farming. This tomato disease originated in South America and has since spread to Africa. As discussions on AI continue to grow rapidly, we hope that such research will have a significant impact on the development of this nation. Read more Here.

Opportunities & Events.

2024 Young African AI Research Fellowship? at InstaDeep

The 2024 Young African AI Research Fellowship, initiated at the Deep Learning Indaba 2023 with generous sponsorship from Jeff Dean Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research is designed to nurture and develop emerging AI talent across the African continent. This innovative program is set to officially launch today at Deep Learning Indaba 2024, where one of the first distinctions will be awarded for the best poster presentation.

Starting in October 2024, fellows will spend 6 months at the InstaDeep Rwanda office, gaining hands-on experience, engaging in cutting-edge research, & contributing to impactful AI advancements under the exceptional guidance of Arnu Pretorius and with a $1000 monthly stipend.

Applications are still open and you can apply through this LINK.

Black in AI volunteering opportunity for Emerging leaders.

Black in AI has announced an opportunity for anyone with an MS or PhD in the #AI field, to share their expertise, insights, and guidance with the next generation of AI leaders by volunteering with our Emerging Leaders in AI program! . This is incredible and is open to anyone with the mentioned requirements, Apply HERE.

Everything else you should know today.

The industry reacts to OpenAI’s groundbreaking new model.

OpenAI has released a new model and has created excitement in the AI world. The o1 model could help OpenAI reach a $150B value and is different because it learns by breaking things down step-by-step instead of just copying data.

How does it work? o1 tries different solutions to problems, learns from its mistakes, and improves over time. It can code simple games, solve hard math Olympiad problems, and study enzymes without needing examples.

Is it AGI? Open AI engineers say "Not yet". While impressive, it’s not at human-level intelligence yet.

When can you use it? ChatGPT Plus users can try o1-preview now. Others will get access later.

Replit Agent helps non-coders build apps with text prompts

While AI coding assistants like Cursor and Github Copilot have been game-changers for programmers, you have to speak the language of code to get much use out of them — and beginners might not know where to start. That’s because there’s a lot more that goes into coding than just the code itself. You have to weed out bugs, track updates, test user scenarios, and make sure your app can interact with other platforms.

Now, a platform called Replit Agent wants to make the app development process more user-friendly. It’ll reportedly not only write the code for you but take care of the testing and deployment, too. Early users have already generated Wordle replicas, prompt engineering databases, and product sign-up pages with the tool. It also represents a big step toward human-level intelligence:

Watch more here where the CEO of Replit makes an announcement

prompt of the week

Let's make our week fun, try some of your AI chatbots, and see how they think.

Tools for productivity

Scratchpad: An AI-powered workspace for sales teams, giving leaders complete visibility and control of their process.

Holly AI: This is An AI assistant that helps find, engage, and build relationships with candidates for recruitment agencies.

Quist: Quist: An AI-powered research assistant that delivers personalized reports that cater to your unique business needs.

Keak: Helps you to improve your websites with a fine-tuned model that generates variations and automatically launches A/B tests.

Foto AI: Transform or remove your image background in a matter of seconds with AI.

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