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Out of Office Out of AfricaInvesting in Africa: Startups and opportunities with Remy Muhire.In this episode we're pleased to welcome Remy Muhire to discuss investment opportunities in Africa's startup ecosystem. From fintech and agritech to renewable energy and e-commerce, we break down the high-growth sectors driving Africa’s economic transformation.2025-05-0122 min
IRL: Online Life is Real LifeThe AI Medicine CabinetLife, death and data. AI’s capacity to support research on human health is well documented. But so are the harms of biased datasets and misdiagnoses. How can AI developers build healthier systems? We take a look at a new dataset for Black skin health, a Covid chatbot in Rwanda, AI diagnostics in rural India, and elusive privacy in mental health apps.Avery Smith is a software engineer in Maryland who lost his wife to skin cancer. This inspired him to create the Black Skin Health AI Dataset and the web app, Melalogic.Remy Muhire wo...2022-09-1225 min
Practical AISpeech tech and Common Voice at MozillaMany people are excited about creating usable speech technology. However, most of the audio data used by large companies isn’t available to the majority of people, and that data is often biased in terms of language, accent, and gender. Jenny, Josh, and Remy from Mozilla join us to discuss how Mozilla is building an open-source voice database that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web (Common Voice). They also discuss efforts through Mozilla fellowship program to develop speech tech for African languages and understand bias in data sets.Join the discussion...2020-09-0958 min