The second episode of Biztrendstv focuses on the AI agent and how it revolutionizes business, especially on the continent.
The CEO of the group and shareholder of Brave Group and co-founder of Bridge Labs Musa Kalenga says that AI is a natural evolution of the travel of the continent.
He says that a year ago, only 20% of the average public to whom he is talking about was excited by AI; Today, it looks more like 50%, and it believes in a few months, 80% will be excited. He adds this signals a certain level of adoption.
“The point in which we are currently is that, even if many people adopt and experience with AI, there is a massive quantity of knowledge and learning that can occur.”
Currently, it’s about testing and learning what works in your ecosystem. “And it is the bridge towards agentic AI.”
What agentic AI does (or can do)
He explains that there are tasks that you do in your daily life that take time, time you could do other more useful things. If you can identify these tasks and describe these tasks, there is a degree of automation that you can attach to these tasks. So your life becomes much easier.
But you must learn to describe something, then match a solution to this over time, then transform this correspondence solution into a means of automating it or code it into AI.
But once you got this, you don’t have to do these tasks anymore. It is the AI agent who takes you away from doing what we do not want to do as human beings.
“It is then a question of transforming this into a commercial solution, because this is where you get the commercial value.”
The advertising example
Kalenga says that their advertising agency realized that they could produce value much faster using agency AI.
About two years ago, they started to experiment with their traditional process, to have a big shorter to prepare things for production, then they added in an increasingly difficult chronology.
“We wanted agility. We wanted a faster process. ”
Using this, they reduced their time for 50%, from 42 days to a few hours to turn work.
“This is a classic example of looking at the best AI of its category and a value chain of the way we produce work and applying it at each stage of this process to reduce our time.”
They then converted this to a solution which became a service, forge.
The market moves
He says they are not the only ones to do this, other organizations do similar things.
What has been exciting for them is that they are able to solve a difficult problem for customers, who, in turn, look at how they can improve their ways of working.
“When a customer tells you that it wants it to be done more quickly, and you say to them:” We can do it faster, but can you move at the same speed? “Then it becomes a completely different conversation.”
Its point is that the transformation and digital change that must occur alongside all these solutions is the difference between those that work and those who do not.
“Companies must understand that technology is changing and the market is moving.
“However, they must be clear about what they want and what they can and should do themselves, thanks to these new tools and what they should delegate.”
Africa and AI
AI is a great opportunity for African companies.
“We are famous for skipping the office, and AI is presented as one of the reasons why we can capture value in this fifth industrial revolution.
“Small businesses can get many amounts of value in a short time using this technology,” he said.
The linguistic challenge
A unique challenge in the adoption of agentic AI on the continent is the language. “You have to describe things in English, so if you are not an English speaking in the first language or if you have never talked about English before and you have to invite it in English, so it’s a problem.”
He says that some LLMs are developed for African languages and African language contexts that arrive, which will help solve this problem.
Then, when we try to find solutions around this problem, it could be a combination of different initiatives, not a single size.
What is important is that we must create LLM and databases that have a more African linguistic context, and that will help us get a better outing.
Resolve for Africa
There are opportunities to solve problems for the continent from zero, by solving problems for the largest population, then you can solve from top to bottom, where established companies create a space for innovation.
Entrepreneurs have resolved in the first space, insurance companies and innovative financial services in the second space.
In the meantime, Kalenga hopes that technology will make us more human. He highlights his own experience here.
Apart from that, he says that there will be interesting ethical conversations, especially in the African context.
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