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Louise Coetzer’s work autoplay — Africa’s first AI opera — explores the intersection between human creativity and machine learning and where it could lead, with a soundscape featuring Inge Beckmann.
AI OPERA

Dancing with the machine: autoplay and the future of AI-driven art

Louise Coetzer flirted with the enemy to create experimental dance-opera autoplay. But her message is one of resistance

  • Keith Bain
6 min read
Companies must focus on reducing their carbon footprint and run their data centres on renewable energy. (Photo by Tom Lee/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Artificial intelligence costs the Earth

Companies must focus on reducing their carbon footprint and run their data centres on renewable energy

  • Ben Selier
5 min read
AFRICAN TRADERS

Integrating AI-enhanced sentiment analysis in global gold market trends for African traders

By leveraging artificial intelligence, traders can now access more accurate, real-time insights to make better-informed decisions on when to buy, hold, or sell gold

  • Partner Content
6 min read
AFRICATECHFESTIVAL

Africa Tech Festival 2024: Putting African tech on the global stage

Africa Tech Festival showcases how tech and strategy are transforming Africa’s diverse industries, from telecoms and financial services to healthcare and retail

  • Informa
1 min read
Research shows that 38% of South African journalists make use of artificial intelligence tools
AFRICAN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM CONFERENCE

AI is a disruptor to newsrooms, African Investigative Journalist Conference warns

Research shows that 38% of South African journalists make use of artificial intelligence tools

  • Umamah Bakharia
2 min read
Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images
AI

Alarm around AI is not warranted

South African university students are using AI to help them understand work, not avoid it, according to research

  • Tanja Bosch
  • Chikezie E Uzuegbunam
5 min read
The technology’s unalterable digital trail would reduce fiscal leaks and prevent large-scale corruption draining the public purse. Photo: Supplied
4IR

South Africa must use 4IR technologies in the fight against corruption

While technology can help prevent illegal activities that harm economies and societies, it cannot do it alone

  • Mduduzi Mbiza
  • Saurabh Sinha
  • Dr Uche Okonkwo
7 min read
William Kamkwamba defied the odds by using technology to solve social problems that help eradicate hunger and poverty and raise living standards. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for Africa America Institute)
AFRICA

The ability to solve social and economic problems in Africa using technology is real

Africa, which has millions of people using mobile financial services and a young population who are radical adopters and innovators in everything digital, has huge potential to…

  • Justin Siljeur
6 min read
Disrupting corruption with a data-driven approach is possible. (Getty Images)
AI

Machine learning and AI is coming for corrupt officials

Disrupting corruption with a data-driven approach is possible

  • Ina Cilliers
7 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI

The future of work will likely be filled with human-machine partnership

Companies that foster AI literacy and data culture are best positioned to take advantage of technological changes

  • Mark Nasila
6 min read
CAREERISM

Let’s race with, not against, the machine

SA’s economy will need a growing supply of tech experts such as programmers and roboticists

  • Daniel le Roux
5 min read