AfricAIED 2023 Recap

We successfully ran the inaugural event of AfricAIED — 1st workshop on AI in Education in Africa — at Google Research Ghana with sponsorship from Google and ETH for Development. We had about 35 people in person and 40 online. Present was also JoyNews, a National TV news broadcaster in Ghana. 

We had an incredible lineup of 16 speakers spanning educators, education researchers, education entrepreneurs, and AI experts who gave talks on the ways AI is already being used in education in Africa, a primer on AI, and Brilla AI, an AI being built to win Ghana's National Science & Maths Quiz Ghana (NSMQ). There was also a lively panel session that discussed the opportunities and challenges of leveraging AI to improve education in Africa.

One of the key highlights was the demo of Brilla AI, the first version of our AI Contestant for the 2023 NSMQ that transcribed speech with a Ghanaian accent, generated an answer to a scientific riddle, and said that answer with a Ghanaian accent.

Links

Website: https://www.africaied.org/africaied-2023/

Recap video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWJw9otXDWo

Full session: https://youtu.be/qug7hndH9JE