Creative, chaotic: If AI takes over the world, what will Africa do?
An AI-generated portrait. If AI is going to take over the world, what is Africa going to do to it? The future might just be exciting after all. PHOTO | MAO SIQIAN | XINHUA VIA AFP
At the beginning of the year, the company Open AI (haha, the irony!) allowed the public on the internet to use a version of ChatGPT, which was amazing. At the time access was free, which meant that the user is the product.
Still, for a couple of evenings here and there, I was happy to be a test subject, to see what kind of capabilities we were talking about here. After all, this one program was supposed to help us imagine all the ways in which human labour would become obsolete.
