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The Great Convergence Africa's AI Odyssey

Author : Gedeon Baleke

Publisher : Pencil

Page : 31 pages

File Size : 15,1 MB

Release : 2024-06-09

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9362631547

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The book Great Convergence; Africa's AI Odyssey provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on various aspects of society, including democracy, the economy, and education, with a specific focus on Africa. It discusses the potential benefits and challenges of AI, as well as the role of AI in shaping the future of Africa. The book highlights the transformative potential of AI in Africa, emphasizing the need for ethical considerations, infrastructure development, and skill enhancement to harness the power of AI for sustainable development.



UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition

Author : Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 50,57 MB

Release : 1990

Category : History

ISBN : 9780520066960

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"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description



Artificial Intelligence, China, Russia, and the Global Order

Author : Shazeda Ahmed

Publisher :

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 44,51 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Artificial intelligence

ISBN : 9781585662951

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"Artificial intelligence (AI) and big data promise to help reshape the global order. For decades, most political observers believed that liberal democracy offered the only plausible future pathways for big, industrially sophisticated countries to make their citizens rich. Now, by allowing governments to monitor, understand, and control their citizens far more effectively than ever before, AI offers a plausible way for big, economically advanced countries to make their citizens rich while maintaining control over them--the first since the end of the Cold War. That may help fuel and shape renewed international competition between types of political regimes that are all becoming more "digital." Just as competition between liberal democratic, fascist, and communist social systems defined much of the twentieth century, how may the struggle between digital liberal democracy and digital authoritarianism define and shape the twenty-first? This work highlights several key areas where AI-related technologies have clear implications for globally integrated strategic planning and requirements development"--



AI and Its Convergence With Communication Technologies

Author : Muneer, Badar

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 19,34 MB

Release : 2023-08-25

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1668477033

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The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Communication Technologies (ICT) is a critical aspect of research and development today, but it poses numerous challenges and bottlenecks. To address these issues, the book AI and Its Convergence with Communication Technologies, edited by a team of expert scholars, provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research and practical challenges related to AI's convergence with ICT. It is designed to benefit engineers, professionals, scientists, and academicians, providing them with insights into the ICT industry and research from an AI perspective. The book covers a wide range of topics, including recent advancements and applications in AI, AI in signal processing, AI in mobile and modern wireless networks, and AI towards automation. It also addresses potential applications of AI in national defense, military technology, hybrid warfare, medical and health sciences, and energy-efficient systems. Furthermore, the book highlights the strengths and weaknesses of AI convergence with ICT, along with emerging frontiers and recommendations. It provides a brief history of AI in ICT and a comprehensive introduction to ICT-related methods and techniques in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The book emphasizes the role of AI in extracting knowledge and making predictions in decision-making strategies for businesses, management, and governance. Overall, this book offers a significant contribution to the understanding of AI and its convergence with communication technologies, making it a must-read for scholars and researchers who seek to understand the intersection of AI and ICT and how it impacts modern industries and research.



Digital Roots

Author : Gabriele Balbi

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 295 pages

File Size : 38,91 MB

Release : 2021-09-07

Category : History

ISBN : 3110740281

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As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concepts that have become central in the digital media literature, focusing on three main areas. The first part, Technologies and Connections, historicises concepts like network, media convergence, multimedia, interactivity and artificial intelligence. The second one is related to Agency and Politics and explores global governance, datafication, fake news, echo chambers, digital media activism. The last one, Users and Practices, is finally devoted to telepresence, digital loneliness, amateurism, user generated content, fandom and authenticity. The book aims to shed light on how concepts emerge and are co-shaped, circulated, used and reappropriated in different contexts. It argues for the need for a conceptual media and communication history that will reveal new developments without concealing continuities and it demonstrates how the analogue/digital dichotomy is often a misleading one.



The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence

Author : Andreas Sudmann

Publisher : transcript Verlag

Page : 335 pages

File Size : 20,59 MB

Release : 2019-10-31

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3839447194

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After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. Recent advances in the field of Artifical Neural Networks have led to a renaissance of dystopian and utopian speculations on an AI-rendered future. Algorithmic technologies are deployed for identifying potential terrorists through vast surveillance networks, for producing sentencing guidelines and recidivism risk profiles in criminal justice systems, for demographic and psychographic targeting of bodies for advertising or propaganda, and more generally for automating the analysis of language, text, and images. Against this background, the aim of this book is to discuss the heterogenous conditions, implications, and effects of modern AI and Internet technologies in terms of their political dimension: What does it mean to critically investigate efforts of net politics in the age of machine learning algorithms?



UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. III, Abridged Edition

Author : Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 422 pages

File Size : 11,82 MB

Release : 1992-11-03

Category : History

ISBN : 9780520066984

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"The book first places Africa in the context of world history at the opening of the seventh century, before examining the general impact of Islamic penetration, the continuing expansion of the Bantu-speaking peoples, and the growth of civilizations in the Sudanic zones of West Africa"--Back cover.



Below the Convergence

Author : Alan Gurney

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 32,60 MB

Release : 2007-02-27

Category : History

ISBN : 9780393329049

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This wonderfully written book tells of the first Herculean expeditions to Antarctica, from astronomer Edmond Halley's 1699 voyage in the Paramore to the sealer John Balleny's 1839 excursion in the Eliza Scott, all in search of land, glory, fur, science, and profit. Life was harsh: crews had poor provisions and inadequate clothing, and scurvy was a constant threat. With unreliable--often homemade--charts, these intrepid explorers sailed in the stormy waters of the Southern Ocean below the Convergence, that sea frontier marking the boundary between the freezing Antarctic waters and the warmer sub-Antarctic seas. These men were the first to discover and exploit a new continent, which was not the verdant southern island they had imagined but an inhospitable expanse of rock and ice, ringed by pack ice and icebergs: Antarctica.



Ancient Civilizations of Africa

Author : G. Mokhtar

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 46,90 MB

Release : 1981

Category : Africa

ISBN : 9780520039131

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The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, The UNESCO General History of Africa reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships between the various parts of the continent. Historical connections with other continents demonstrate Africa's contribution to the development of human civilization. Each volume is lavishly illustrated and contains a comprehensive bibliography.



Cybernetic Revelation

Author : J.D. Casten

Publisher : Post Egoism Media

Page : 774 pages

File Size : 32,43 MB

Release : 2012-11-20

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0985480203

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Cybernetic Revelation explores the dual philosophical histories of deconstruction and artificial intelligence, tracing the development of concepts like the "logos" and the notion of modeling the mind technologically from pre-history to contemporary thinkers like Slavoj Žižek, Steven Pinker, Bernard Stiegler and Daniel C. Dennett. The writing is clear and accessible throughout, yet the text probes deeply into major philosophers seen by JD Casten as "conceptual engineers." Philosophers covered include: Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Philo, Augustine, Shakespeare, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Jung, Joyce, Dewey, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, Chomsky, Žižek, Pinker, Dennett, Hofstadter, Stiegler + more; with special chapters on: AI's history, Complexity, Deconstructing AI, Aesthetics, Consciousness + more...