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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
An Information Communication Technology ( ICT) expert, Chibuike Aguene, has charged government at all levels to harness the potentials in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Aguene, while stating that AI is poised to revolutionise different sectors of the country’s economy and democratise access to education, said the country has a unique opportunity to lead in the field.
The ICT expert noted that Nigeria has the opportunity to improve access to education using AI.
According to him, “For the first time, we have an intelligent companion that can reason, think and make judgements. This is the reality that we face today. This might be the greatest invention we have so far in human history. But we are yet to understand the magnitude of what is happening especially in Nigeria and Africa. AI is revolutionising every industry.
“Human race as we know has actually changed with AI. So, this is a new era. It’s an exciting time to be alive and what I always is that Nigeria should not prepare for AI era. Nigeria should lead. During the mobile phone era, we were preparing. We didn’t provide leadership; social media era, we also prepared but we didn’t provide leadership.
“This is the Artificial Intelligence era. I think it’s time for us to lead. We have a once in a generation opportunity to level the playing field when it comes to access to quality education to what is happening maybe in the United States or China.”
Aguene added “this is our opportunity to give every child in Nigeria and Africa access to quality education without any barriers. As at today, you see there is a lot of barriers in accessing quality education. You can talk about lack of infrastructure, student to teacher ratio, so many barriers that exist in accessing quality education. But thanks to AI. All these can be in the past if Nigeria will provide the leadership and that’s exactly what we are doing as Bildup AI startup.
“So, we have decided to take the lead because we believe that innovation is driven by young people. We don’t want to sit back and wait for United States or China to invent things for us. “
