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From printing presses to large language models - a reflection on how the role of the machine minder has evolved across generations, and how I've become my father.

While the term "AI agent" has become something of a buzzword in recent times, understanding its practical applications can unlock significant value for African businesses.

Andrew Ng famously said that AI is the new electricity. But what does that mean if you are a business or policy stakeholder in Africa? I discuss my understanding of this analogy at a deeper level.

Imagine being an AI Engineer and not knowing it! In this post, I share my my experience building LLM-based applications, and how I got here in the first place.

You know that feeling when you're about to launch something big, and your stomach is doing backflips? That was me before our first-ever AI hackathon at Irembo campus.

How do AI models actually understand what we're saying? How does ChatGPT know that "chair" is closer to "table" than "basketball"? The answer is vector search, and once you get it, a lot of things about modern AI just click.