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African startup to use Artificial Intelligence Robots for News

Vanessa Kamau by Vanessa Kamau
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A tech startup in Africa known as controvert media has implemented the use of artificial intelligence robots to automatically write and post news articles on the internet. Artificial Intelligence robots are known by software developers in order to take on repetitive tasks that would ordinarily be carried out by people. Some of the content produced has been appearing on soccer24.co.zw which is a popular football blog in Zimbabwe.

Other websites that have used this new application is Pindula.com which is a Southern Afrocentric profiles and news website. This new way of creating content works in a very intriguing way where the AFCON bot creates a basic yet useful reports on final match scores, scoring players and other information about the matches.

Using artificial intelligence , Godwin Chiparaushe, expressed the startup’s elation regarding the milestone. “We’re excited about this achievement. Our journalists get to focus on the more complicated aspects of the game, and the more opinion-driven content that we provide our readers,” he expressed. “There are just things that bots can’t do as well as humans. For example, a bot can’t tell the heavy emotions around a near miss by a losing team, and/or the despair expressed by the coach as a country nears their exit from a tournament. The bot is freeing our journalists to do this kind of content which our readers really appreciate,” Mr. Chiparaushe added.

Speaking about the introduction of the artificial intelligence bot, Controvert Media CEO William Chui highlighted that contrary to the belief that that artificial intelligence apps will push people out of jobs – an opinion held by many – the AI apps will actually create job opportunities.

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“Yes, other jobs will disappear in the future, but new jobs will be created as well,” Mr. Chui emphasised. Think about it; in 1999, all the jobs brought about by the internet today didn’t exist at all then. Jobs like ‘social media manager’, ‘blogger’ or ‘mobile app developer’, or the possibility to do animation for a film studio in Hollywood while you’re in Zimbabwe, were beyond our imagination.

“Back then, people had jobs at post offices where they’d sell stamps, and the postman would deliver letters. If anything, internet technology has brought about more jobs. Artificial Intelligence will certainly have the same effect of creating more jobs,” Mr. Chui concluded.

Mr. Chiparaushe articulated that deploying the bot was not without its challenges. With only basic data available for the matches at the tournament, the data just wasn’t comprehensive. This created a challenge for the startup’s engineering team, as the bot depends on adequate data.

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“Data is a big challenge in Africa, and we had challenges working with the data available. We are currently working on technologies to make it easier to gather this data ourselves,” Mr. Chiparaushe affirmed. Even for a tournament as big as AFCON, data is surprisingly limited compared to other international tournaments and leagues.

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Vanessa Kamau is a young writer from Daystar University. She has been a writer for 5 years and enjoys it as a hobby and passion. During her free time she enjoys nature walks, discoveries ,reading and takes pleasure in new challenges and experiences. Contact: [email protected]

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