The village boy from Ovim wishes to announce that he has accepted to deliver a special keynote speech in an upcoming Google Summit. As a PhD student in Johns Hopkins University, faculty in Carnegie Mellon University, global lead ASIC design engineer in Analog Devices, investor in Tekedia Capital, and owner of Intel Corp’s only programmable microprocessor knowledge partner in Africa*, I have worked at the highest level of robotics and AI systems. And in Harvard University’s Harvard Business Review, I have written many seminal papers examining the impacts of AI in markets, economic development and more.
In Harvard, I predicted how AI and robotics will transform developments across nations, and challenged Africa to look for new developmental paradigms, instead of mimicking China’s trajectory, because what worked for China has expired, and cannot be used in another country or region. Simply, the Western factory jobs which were outsourced to China will not move to Africa as wages rise in China because Africa will be competing against AI and robots in America and Europe, not Chinese workers. The piece, written in 2019, remains insightful, and OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Bard are making everything clearer
AI will change the foundational pillars upon which market systems operate, and only firms and nations which develop capabilities will thrive. When Pythagoras postulated centuries ago, as they looked for the “core” of natural philosophy, that our world is nothing but Numbers, little did he know that AI will make that postulation self-evident in this age. With AI and broad autonomous systems, the Western world and China will transition from their current innovation era to accelerated era, even as some regions in the world are stalled on a transition from invention era to innovation one. The economic gap can widen, and that is why your firm must not just run on AI, but be transformed by AI.
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My speech is on January 11, 2024, and I will be attending live; will share webcast link later. More updates coming…
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