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AI Conversations: Africa in FocusIterative Approach to Building Machine Learning Model in Business EcosystemIn this episode of AI Conversations: Africa in Focus, we tackle a fundamental but often overlooked question: Why are you building that ML system in the first place?Segun explores the critical distinction between building machine learning models for research versus deploying them to solve real business problems. Too often, teams celebrate marginal gains in accuracy while ignoring whether their models are moving the needle on key business metrics like customer retention, conversions, or cost reduction.You’ll learn why success in a business setting demands more than a high-performing model—it demands alignment with busi...
2025-06-1014 minAI Conversations: Africa in Focus"DeepSeek's Disruption: Redefining AI Efficiency and Global Reactions"Join this conversation as we unpack the science, politics, and future of AI in this exciting and insightful episode!In this episode ofAI Conversations: Africa in Focus, I dive into one of the most significant developments in the AI landscape — the release of the DeepSeek model series.This revolutionary model has achieved reasoning capacities comparable to OpenAI's O1 model series but at a fraction of the computational cost. I explore the innovative techniques behind this breakthrough, the implications for the future of AI, and how this could make training language models on consumer GPUs a reality....
2025-02-1212 min
AI Conversations: Africa in FocusAI Conversations: Africa in FocusWelcome back to the podcast! After a brief hiatus, we’re excited to return with renewed energy, a broader vision, and a new identity. In this episode, we address the reasons behind our break, reflect on our journey so far, and introduce the rebranding of our show from “Applying AI: The AI in Africa Podcast” to “AI Conversations: Africa in Focus.”
We’ll continue to explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning can address Africa’s unique challenges while expanding our scope to include global AI trends, groundbreaking research, ethical concerns, and transformative applications across industries.
Join us as w...
2025-01-2306 minAI Conversations: Africa in FocusTransformative effect of Artificial Intelligence on Critical Sector of Nigeria's EconomyIn this episode, we introduce the pressing issues plaguing our nation and what transformative solutions AI could bring to them, from the farmer-herder crisis to unemployment and insurgency. These challenges, deeply rooted in various sectors including agriculture, education, security, finance, and industry, have evolved over time, often unnoticed until they become full-blown crises.
However, the advent of artificial intelligence offers a beacon of hope. AI models can predict future outcomes by harnessing vast datasets containing invaluable patterns and behaviors and offer
innovative solutions to longstanding problems. Imagine the potential impact on security if AI were integrated into...
2024-03-0706 minAI Conversations: Africa in FocusScaling the impact of artificial intelligence in African Businesses Part 2In this latest episode of Applying AI: The AI in Africa Podcast, Segun welcomes listeners to the first episode of the year 2024, continuing the discussion from the previous episode. The focus is on the challenges of scaling African businesses with artificial intelligence and the importance of identifying the impact before attempting to scale. In this episode, Segun delves into the essential question of whether one can scale the impact of solutions that haven't been implemented yet. He emphasizes the necessity of understanding the "why" behind building an artificial intelligence model for a specific business and explores the key questions...
2024-01-1109 minAI Conversations: Africa in FocusScaling the impact of artificial intelligence in African BusinessesI recently participated in discussions on artificial intelligence in an event I attended in Lagos; Moonshot by techcabal. The discussions on AI centered around scaling the impact of artificial intelligence in Africa and it then occurred to me that what is there to scale when we're just getting started with artificial intelligence and when many organizations and companies are still in the infant stage of building an AI model specifically targeted at a problem. So in this episode, I discuss what exactly must be put in place before we begin to talk about scaling AI impact because scaling AI...
2023-11-0110 minAI Conversations: Africa in FocusBusiness and Artificial Intelligence.Businesses now revolve around the use of technology and as far as we're concerned artificial intelligence is at the center of this business revolution so in this newest episode of Applying AI: The AI in Africa podcast, the host discusses how business owners and managers can leverage on AI to achieve the most results in their business. The host also discusses the myths about artificial intelligence in Business and why they are unfounded; Also considers exactly which area of the business should business owner deploy AI systems and three fundamental questions that must be answered even before thinking of...
2023-10-0519 minAI Conversations: Africa in FocusMachine Learning and Fake NewsThe massive deployment of hate speech and fake news in Nigeria's digital space is too unbecoming; during the famous EndSARS protests, we saw how it led to the destruction of both public and private properties in Lagos Nigeria. There's, therefore, an urgent need to either collectively or individually rise up and wage a war against fake news. In this episode, Segun discusses how machine-learning fake news detector can be developed and deployed in the fight against fake news. While many are calling for strict regulation of social media, Segun believes that would be akin to cutting off the head...
2023-06-2015 minAI Conversations: Africa in FocusDriving Revenues and Sales: A Machine Learning Use Case in Retail BusinessIncreasing sales and revenues are believed to be the single most important thing for every business person. In this episode, Segun explains how machine learning and artificial intelligence can drive innovative sales and revenues. How machine learning can model customers' purchasing behavior and patterns so perfectly to predict what other products in a store could interest customers in buying. Causing customers to buy even more outside their groceries list is perhaps one way to sell more, this episode discusses how retail business owners could leverage machine learning to achieve this and sell in a month what they sold in 3...
2023-04-1208 min
AI Conversations: Africa in FocusFundamental Issues in Machine LearningWhat are the fundamental issues in machine learning that must be reconciled and what appears to be the pitfall that machine learning engineers must avoid while developing a machine learning model? in this episode, the host cut right into the critical questions that must be asked before any artificial intelligence developer jump on any project and why the questions must be asked. He further discusses the problem that may arise from evaluating a machine-learning model on the test set.
2023-02-2209 minAI Conversations: Africa in FocusSecurity: Application of Automatic Number Plate RecognitionIf you check the world around you, What you see is chaos, kidnappings, and maimings. What our world has turned to is becoming alarming regarding security. In this episode, Segun looks at the foundational structure of all known crimes and draws a pattern that makes computer vision the technology that is caught in the middle, and why they're the perfect fit to address various security challenges. In particular, the host looks at the applications of automatic number plate recognition and how it can help track any vehicle involved in any violent crimes or organized crime such as terrorism. The p...
2023-01-1113 minAI Conversations: Africa in FocusApplying Computer Vision in Manufacturing and SecurityIf you look at the world around you today you'll see that it's becoming scarier and this is due to the growing insecurity while we all can agree that there are more security lapses in Africa however, insecurity is all across the world so, in today's episode, Segun emphasizes the need to put technology and indeed computer vision in the forefront of the war against insecurity, Segun talks about computer vision and its correlation with human eyes and especially how CV can play pivotal roles in addressing varying security lapses, discusses the potential embedded in the use of machine...
2022-12-0710 minAI Conversations: Africa in FocusArtificial Intelligence in Banking SystemIn this latest episode, Segun will take you through the application of artificial intelligence in the banking system, and how it’s been used to detect credit card fraud. The numerous challenges also include the high rate of loan defaulters, and how artificial intelligence and its branches of machine learning and deep learning could be deployed to address them. Anyone anywhere especially in Nigeria and other African countries now gets unsolicited calls from fintech as a result of the refusal of someone in their contact list to pay back a loan collected; He looked at this trend and advise inn...
2022-11-0916 minAI Conversations: Africa in FocusApplication of Artificial Intelligence in Real Estate In this episode, Segun focuses on the pressing challenges in real estate in Africa, and how artificial intelligence can help address them, he also looks at some ai models that could be developed for some of the issues investors are currently facing in real estate, the type of data to be collected and how these ai models will operate in such a way that the problem identified would be solved. This new episode also covers the concept of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning, which are sometimes mistaken to be the same, especially by newbies in the field; h...
2022-10-1917 min
AI Conversations: Africa in FocusIntroducing Applying AI: The AI in Africa PodcastIn this maiden episode of Applying AI: The AI in Africa Podcast - Segun shared his experiences in artificial intelligence and took a swipe into Africa's tech ecosystem and why we're where we are with technology also, he shared what he hopes to achieve as host of this podcast.
2022-10-0510 min