AI offers the opportunity to catalyse a radically different future for SA
OpenAI recently introduced the latest in its GPT series of large language models, to widespread interest. GPT stands for “generative pretrained transformer”.
Scientific fields from drug design to materials discovery are being catalysed by these huge data sets and powerful models. For example, Nvidia and the University of Florida’s academic health centre collaborated to create a transformer model named GatorTron to extract insights from large volumes of clinical data to accelerate medical research.
In SA, health is an obvious example of a significant economic and societal opportunity where the technology needs to serve as the centrepiece of a new healthcare model, to drive down costs, increase access and radically improve outcomes. The application of AI in this context will provide predictive, preventive, personalised care and help reduce demand.
, a national purpose that is bold and optimistic, that embraces technology to restore science and research, help citizens live longer, healthier lives and create new industries with meaningful employment. However, achieving this economic transformation requires a generational change in how work and innovation takes place. Capturing the opportunity in AI is a marathon, not a sprint.
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