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We have seen historically that game-changing breakthroughs can be enabled when this powerful collision happens between public and private sectors. Take the US Department of Defense's DARPA agency - they infused the first funding into what is now the internet." "The durability of IP is there, but unless there's a market need and the talent to accelerate, it will not happen." "We don't have the time for the decades-long innovation process to happen. At Berkeley Lab, we've developed different models experimenting with different lab-to-market approaches." "Like we are doing cradle to commerce, I feel Africa is a cradle of civilization, and Africa can bring that cradle of what you're doing in technology as well as your traditional wisdom to the world." "The challenge now is that using AI uses 10 times more energy. Doing a regular Google query takes about 0.3 kilowatt-hours, but doing a ChatGPT query request takes about 10 times that. Can we use AI to help us use less energy instead of more energy?

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Through education, what we're trying to do is to give form to and to shape human beings. Human beings are the input, but they're also the output for education. Whatever we do with AI, however we harness its potential, it has to be with that aim in mind." "We need to take a step back and ask ourselves: What is education for AI? Not just AI for education, but education for AI. We're dealing here potentially with a new intelligence, maybe at some point a new consciousness. We need to start thinking about how we are going to be interacting with that.""We need to think about what kind of guardrails we want to put in place, what kind of standards, norms, and ethics we want to develop around the use of this technology." "I'm not so concerned about access. I think Moore's law is going to apply to AI, and over time we're going to see the technology becoming more accessible, more affordable. What I'm worried about is Murphy's law - what can go wrong will go wrong." "Human flourishing has to be the goal. Whatever we do has to be directed at enabling, empowering humans to flourish in the many ways and forms that flourishing can take.

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Agri-food systems are an entry point for solving a number of globally relevant problems. Not only does food need to be grown on the field, but it also needs to be processed, distributed, and ultimately reach the consumer." "Human health is actually at the nexus of agriculture and health, because if you grow healthy and nutritious crops, that translates into a more healthy and nutritious population." "How well a crop grows is a function of three things: the genome of the crop, the environment in which the crop is sown, and how well you manage the crop." "The real hope I believe is in platform economies in agriculture. You can't have one big monolithic solution that is going to be globally universal." "My vision for a solution is a business architecture comprising of thousands of startups solving hyper-local problems, but anchored by these global platforms. For us to reach that stage, the public sector and the private sector need to invest in human capacities and awareness creation.

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AI is something that we all struggle to know what to do with. It's very difficult, because it's a new technology. A lot of people liken it to fire or electricity, because it's a general-purpose technology. As somebody put it, it's like a drug. We don't have the dosage, we don't have the side effects." "AI is the worst it can be from now on because it's improving every day, not even every week. It's an amazing time in our history to live this moment." "The promise here is we're betting on young people in Africa. We want to leapfrog. We want to create the future. AI is giving the possibility to anyone to dream big and to make it happen. That's why it's a very special moment in our history as humans." "The challenge that we all have is to actually democratize AI. Giving access to a lot more people is our biggest and most interesting problem to solve." "The next solutions are going to be done by some minds, some people, some young people who are not even in the room, who don't know that we're talking now, and they probably have the solutions that we don't even think about." "Progress is when everybody has access to technology.

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With AI tool, we are able to detect diseased crops by image satellite. We are also able to know the situation of the harvest this year. With AI tools, we are able to estimate the yield of each crop in each country.

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