Why Representative Data Is Critical to Nigeria’s AI Ambitions
In one of my earlier articles this year, I argued that AI became possible because of the data available on the internet and that we shouldn't stop contributing to it.
The more I think about it, the more I believe this is the single most important fact about AI that gets overlooked in conversations about Africa's place in technology.
The reason AI can work across so many different domains- language, vision, medicine, logistics is simple: there's data for it.
Frontier AI systems are trained on enormous datasets drawn from sources that include the public web, licensed datasets, code, books, images, audio, video, and human- or synthetically generated material. That scale is the foundation everything else is built on. AlexNet, one of the foundational models in image recognition, makes the same point in miniature. It was only possible because of data — 1.2 million labeled images, to be exact...
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