The College of Professional Research Accra, UPSA and Hallmark Analysis Lab, a Ghanaian primarily based AI analysis entity, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to determine an Synthetic Intelligence (AI) Lab at UPSA.
The lab will deal with Ghana’s AI problem with labour substitution by redesigning jobs and creating alternatives for Ghanaians to organize for newer and better earning jobs which have change into accessible now.
With the signing of the MoU, Hallmark Analysis Lab, will within the subsequent 10 years commit a major funding of a $240 million and can carry collectively the brightest minds from each business and the college and provides them the resources and the liberty to discover the uncharted territories of AI.
Talking on the signing ceremony in Accra yesterday, Mr Philip Gamey, Government Chairman of the Hallmark Analysis Lab, stated the signing of the settlement paved the best way for the creation of an AI laboratory, at UPSA, a development which inserts into the President’s particular initiative on AI.
”This isn’t simply the signing of a doc; it’s the inauguration of a shared future in keeping with the Presidential Particular Initiative on Synthetic Intelligence. It’s a moment that, I imagine, shall be regarded again upon as a pivotal step within the journey of Synthetic Intelligence,” he stated.
He stated “We’re getting into an period the place AI is reshaping industries, redefining how we work, reside, and work together with the world. However to really unlock its full potential, to make sure it serves humanity morally and successfully, we will’t do it alone. We want the deep scientific inquiry, the rigorous educational freedom, and the varied perspectives that solely a partnership like this may present.”
Mr Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, MP – Minister of State in Cost of Particular Initiatives stated the federal government believed that AI was essential to deal with a lot of the nation’s challenges.
”When it comes to the federal government’s place, all people, the President, and everyone seems to be speaking about AI now as a result of that’s the method to go, whether or not you prefer it or not, that’s the method to go. AI has come to remain,” he stated.
Professor John Kwaku Mensah Mawutor, Vice Chancellor of UPSA, stated he was of the view that quite a lot of transformations could possibly be witnessed by the nation with the usage of AI.
“We’ve got to consciously change the best way we construct issues, construct capacity of our lecturers and I do know this MOU will avail some services for UPSA lecturers in addition to enhance our analysis capability relating to synthetic intelligence and IT as a complete,” he stated.
BY TIMES REPORTER
