NEGLECT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE BANE OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

Abstract

The rapid rise in Science and technology during the early stages of the 20th century witnessed the rise in different inventions that geared towards the betterment of human race. This period however, yielded numerous inventions of sophisticated artificial intelligence like computers which functions almost like human mind. Despite the various critiques on the use of artificial intelligence, it still stands out to be of massive benefits to humanity. The questions which we intend to elucidate here include, what is the position of the Africans as regards to invention of A.I? Do Africans, like other races of the world, enjoy the benefits of A.I? If not, what is the cause? How does this effect them and .how would the problem be solved? Using the critical exposition of philosophical inquiry in here, we discovered that, Africa holistically, is not equal to other races of the world in the march of civilization. The total adaptation of artificial intelligence, hitherto, have been so much neglected by Africans even at this point in time when the developed countries are working harder to improve more on the usage of artificial intelligence. The use of artificial intelligence by the developed countries of the world is what apparently separates them from the grossly underdeveloped Africa. Therefore, Africa can only develop when they begin to embrace and invest on research that can also create technological products like artificial intelligence (computers). By so doing, there will be massive improvements in every sector of life in African countries.