Organisers of the annual Africa’s Beacon of ICT Merit and Leadership Lecture, has said the event will focus on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a digital economy with the theme: “Artificial Intelligence: The Good, The Complex and The Anticipated.”
The sixteenth edition of the award ceremony according the publisher of Nigeria CommunicationsWeek, the organisers of the event, Ken Nwogbo, “is a special edition to recognise and celebrate organisations and individuals in the ICT industry that have been distinguished in delivery innovative services in the sector.
“Most of these organisations and individuals have consistently being voted by our readers as leaders in their areas of operations and we have decided to reward them in this special edition,” Nwogbo said.
According to him AI is considered to have the potential to instigate a fourth industrial revolution,1 and is dramatically changing people’s patterns of interaction and economic activities.
“The traditional factors of production and physical capital and labour may no longer promote substantial economic growth. It is generally believed that AI will be one of the most important factors determining future economic growth.
“However, unlike traditional machines, which replaced the use of human and animal labour for simple manual work and heavy or dangerous activities, AI-related inputs may change the type of human work in a comprehensive way.
“In contrast to previous industrial revolutions, AI does not simply involve the invention of a new machine or technology. Instead, AI has similarities to the accumulation of human capital, as it can learn and accumulate knowledge by itself,” he said.
