{"id":9932,"date":"2018-06-20T22:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T04:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&p=9932"},"modified":"2018-06-20T22:20:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T04:20:06","slug":"google-to-open-first-african-african","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/google-to-open-first-african-african\/","title":{"rendered":"Google To Open First African Artificial Intelligence Research Centre In Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google has announced it is to open its first African artificial intelligence research centre in Ghana in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Google boss Sundar Pichai said the multinational was \u201creally looking forward\u201d to opening the centre.<\/p>\n

The centre will open later this year in Accra, the company said in an official statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re committed to collaborating with local universities and research centers, as well as working with policy makers on the potential uses of AI in Africa,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n

The Accra office will join similar AI research centres in places like Paris, Tel Aviv, and, of course, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Below is the full statement by Google<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen people across Africa do amazing things with the internet and technology\u2014for themselves, their communities and the world. Over the past 10 years in which Google has had offices in Africa, we\u2019ve been excited to be a part of that transformation.<\/p>\n

Ultimately 10 million Africans will benefit from our digital skills training program with 2 million people having already completed the course, and we\u2019re supporting 100,000 developers and over 60 tech startups through our Launchpad Accelerator Africa.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re also adapting our products to make it easy for people to discover the best of the internet, even on low-RAM smartphones or unstable network connections.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In recent years we\u2019ve also witnessed an increasing interest in machine learning research across the continent. Events like Data Science Africa 2017 in Tanzania, the 2017 Deep Learning Indaba event in South Africa, and follow-on IndabaX events in 2018 in multiple countries have shown an exciting and continuing growth of the computer science research community in Africa.<\/p>\n

Today, we\u2019re announcing a Google AI research center in Africa, which will open later this year in Accra, Ghana. We\u2019ll bring together top machine learning researchers and engineers in this new center dedicated to AI research and its applications.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re committed to collaborating with local universities and research centers, as well as working with policy makers on the potential uses of AI in Africa. On a personal note, both of the authors have ties to Africa\u2014Jeff spent part of his childhood in Uganda and Somalia, and Moustapha grew up in Senegal.<\/p>\n

As such, we\u2019re excited to combine our research interests in AI and machine learning and our experience in Africa to push the boundaries of AI while solving challenges in areas such as healthcare, agriculture, and education.<\/p>\n

AI has great potential to positively impact the world, and more so if the world is well represented in the development of new AI technologies.<\/p>\n

So it makes sense to us that the world should be well represented in the development of AI. Our new AI center in Accra joins the list of other locations where we focus on AI, including Paris, Zurich, Tokyo, Beijing, Montreal, Toronto, Seattle, Cambridge\/Boston, Tel Aviv\/Haifa, New York, and our Mountain View\/San Francisco headquarters. If you\u2019re a machine learning researcher interested in joining this new center, you can apply as a Research Scientist or a Research Software Engineer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google has announced it is to open its first African artificial intelligence research centre in Ghana in 2018. Google boss Sundar Pichai said the multinational was \u201creally looking forward\u201d to opening the centre. The centre will open later this year in Accra, the company said in an official statement. \u201cWe\u2019re committed to collaborating with local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[320,322],"class_list":["post-9932","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-tech","news-category-world","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"\nGoogle To Open First African Artificial Intelligence Research Centre In Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google To Open First African Artificial Intelligence Research Centre In Ghana\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/google-to-open-first-african-african\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google To Open First African Artificial Intelligence Research Centre In Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Google To Open First African Artificial Intelligence Research Centre In Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/google-to-open-first-african-african\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NigeriaNewsWeb\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sundar-Pichai.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/google-to-open-first-african-african\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/google-to-open-first-african-african\/\",\"name\":\"Google To Open First African Artificial Intelligence Research Centre In Ghana\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/google-to-open-first-african-african\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/google-to-open-first-african-african\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sundar-Pichai.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-06-21T04:20:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-06-21T04:20:06+00:00\",\"description\":\"Google To Open First African Artificial Intelligence Research Centre In Ghana\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/google-to-open-first-african-african\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/google-to-open-first-african-african\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/google-to-open-first-african-african\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sundar-Pichai.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sundar-Pichai.jpg\",\"width\":675,\"height\":450,\"caption\":\"Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps at Google Inc., speaks during a keynote session at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday, March 2, 2015. 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