Tag: development
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The intelligence is plenty but the workers are few
Many low- and middle-income countries are preparing for AI to make information abundant. However, the frontier has shifted. Rich economies are preparing for AI to make some forms of intelligence abundant. Will advanced artificial intelligence allow LMICs to leapfrog human knowledge work—or leave them behind? Information versus intelligence Basic AI systems, like large language models…
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How could AI impact developing economies?
While the internet has changed many things, the past year’s developments in AI suggests that accessing knowledge may have simply been a prelude. Once this knowledge has been ingested into machine learning models, it can be automatically synthesized. What impact might AI have on developing economies, and on the world’s poor? If AI is as important a breakthrough…