South Africa-based entrepreneur, cybersecurity professional and biochemist, Dr Charles Awuzie is the CEO of Gemsbok Group. In this interview by KINGSLEY ALUMONA, he speaks about generative synthetic intelligence (AI), Africa’s technological challenges, amongst others.

Your firm not too long ago launched its generative synthetic intelligence (AI) platform, referred to as GemsbokGPT. What impressed this innovation?

Firstly, my inspiration comes from my ardour to make rising cutting-edge applied sciences out there to the common African man or girl in cities and villages. I could not say I’m the primary to launch a generative synthetic intelligence (AI) platform in Africa however if you happen to examine my observe file, you’ll agree that I’ve all the time been on the forefront of each main technological revolution.

I’m a futurist with a watch for disruptive applied sciences and all the time learning how they can be utilized to resolve Africa’s issues. I’m certainly one of Africa’s first licensed moral hackers and I made cybersecurity a trendy profession path, particularly in Nigeria the place nearly all of folks don’t perceive the distinction between an expert moral hacker and a prison hacker.

Africa’s challenges encourage my quest for know-how and I imagine that with extra investments in know-how, Africa can rise above her challenges.

What are the options of GemsbokGPT that make it distinctive to Africa and Africa’s technology-related challenges?

GemsbokGPT is a set of varied AI capabilities built-in into one platform. This signifies that our customers can transcribe audio to textual content, interact in conversational dialogue with professional AI brokers, write laptop codes with our AI code generator, generate distinctive photographs and create numerous kinds of written content material resembling articles, blogs, adverts, product descriptions, social media content material, and so on.

We designed GemsbokGPT with Africa in thoughts. We named our AI enterprise coach and chatbot, Aliko DangoBot, after Africa’s richest man. Another hanging function of GemsbokGPT is the affiliate programme which empowers our customers to earn a fee per new person launched by them. This is our means of incentivising the adoption of know-how in Africa. Lastly, our pricing is tailor-made for the African market. We have succeeded in packaging a set of varied AI options on one platform for under $7 monthly.

What basic/particular downside is the GemsbokGPT designed to resolve and the way efficient is it?

GemsbokGPT, as a generative AI platform, is designed to handle a variety of issues by leveraging its various set of AI capabilities. The platform’s capabilities span numerous domains, making it versatile in fixing totally different challenges together with, however not restricted to Language Translation, AI Code Generation whereas being accessible and reasonably priced

The platform can facilitate language translation and transcription. It permits customers to transcribe audio to textual content, making it helpful for transcription providers or translating content material into totally different languages, catering to a world viewers.

GemsbokGPT’s AI code generator permits customers to put in writing laptop codes swiftly and precisely with minimal programming expertise.

GemsbokGPT goals to make AI applied sciences accessible to Africans.

The effectiveness and accuracy of GemsbokGPT is mind-blowing. We rely upon superior AI fashions, steady enchancment and a user-friendly interface to ship a personalized person expertise.

There are many AI instruments available in the market proper now together with ChatGPT, Google Bard, Jasper Chat, ChatSpot, and so on. How is your organization bracing for the stiff competitors within the African and world AI markets?

We are usually not in competitors with any of the manufacturers you talked about as a result of GemsbokGPT brings collectively all of their distinctive choices on a single platform. So, we’re a gathering level for the options these manufacturers supply. Instead of switching from Google Bard to ChatGPT, and mid-journey, and so on, you’ll be able to merely be a part of GemsbokGPT and have entry to all in a single platform. This is what’s driving our huge adoption.

You have all the time been a proponent of longevity and also you even imagine that with science, people may stay as much as 150 years. How quickly do you assume the potential of people residing as much as 150 years might be a actuality?

Yes, the longevity subject is one other rising subject of curiosity. Biotechnology goes to take the world by storm identical to Artificial Intelligence. I’m co-founder of a blockchain venture − Transhuman Coin, which is investing in longevity analysis and the event of age reversal therapies. We are led by a high-powered Scientific Advisory Board led by Professor Avinash Singh, a Google award-winning mind machine-interface professional on the University of Technology, Sydney. We have invested in a robotic AI-powered wheelchair which was even examined by Melinda Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Humans will stay to over 150 years by 2045.

Nigeria now has a brand new authorities that’s battling existential technological and financial challenges. If you had been appointed the minister of science and know-how, how would you deal with these challenges?

If I’m appointed minister of science and know-how, I’ll begin fixing Nigeria’s technological challenges by investing in Research and Development (R&D). I’ll allocate vital funding to help analysis and growth initiatives throughout numerous sectors. This may have a ripple impact within the tutorial, techno-scientific sectors of the financial system. I may also set up know-how innovation hubs throughout the nation to foster a tradition of entrepreneurship and innovation. I’ll prioritise the event and adoption of rising applied sciences, resembling synthetic intelligence, blockchain, and renewable power options.

I want I may share extra however I might be glad if the subsequent minister will get in contact with a few of us who’re pioneering technological innovation in Africa to contribute to constructing our nation’s know-how business.

What recommendation do you will have in your followers and Nigerian youths, particularly on know-how and self-development?

My recommendation to my followers and mentees in Nigeria and throughout Africa is “embrace technology because there will be no future without it.”

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