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RUFARO MAFINYANI | The invisible agreements that let systems — and now AI — work together
7+ hour, 13+ min ago (909+ words) This is the 10th instalment of AI Fluency Corner, a 16-part weekly series in Business Day building one connected mental model of artificial intelligence, in plain language. A customer changes her address in a mobile app. Seconds later, billing, delivery, fraud…...
RUFARO MAFINYANI | Multimodal AI – when information stops living in separate worlds
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (280+ words) This is the ninth instalment of AI Fluency Corner, a 16-part weekly series in Business Day building one connected mental model of AI, in plain language. This is no fringe capability. In 2024, GPT-4o, Gemini and Claude all became natively multimodal…...
Generative AI can help accelerate the design of new antibiotics
1+ week, 4+ day ago (788+ words) By 2050, scientists estimate that antibiotic-resistant infections will be associated with more than 8-million deaths worldwide annually. These are bacterial infections that resist traditional antibiotics such as penicillin. They can develop when you eat contaminated food, have an open wound or…...
RUFARO MAFINYANI | Neural networks and deep learning
4+ week, 7+ hour ago (622+ words) This is the fifth instalment of AI Fluency Corner, a 16-part weekly series building a connected mental model of artificial intelligence (AI) in plain language. Your face unlocks your phone in the dark. A banking app reads a handwritten receipt....
RUFARO MAFINYANI | Machine learning ― how systems learn from data
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (672+ words) This is the fourth instalment of AI Fluency Corner, a 16-part weekly series building one connected mental model of artificial intelligence (AI), in plain language. You open YouTube. Before you type a word, videos are already waiting. You open Gmail…...
RUFARO MAFINYANI | Data — the raw material on which everything runs
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (877+ words) This is the second entry in AI Fluency Corner, a 16-part weekly series building one connected mental model of artificial intelligence (AI), in plain language. Two people stand at the same till, buying the same R14,000 laptop. Both tap a card....
RUFARO MAFINYANI | What AI is — and isn’t
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (835+ words) Senior partner in financial engineering & artificial intelligence at specialised finance, risk and applied technology firm Intellica Analytics. This is the first entry in AI Fluency Corner — a 16-part weekly series intended to build a connected mental model of artificial intelligence…...
Clear Score picks Cape Town for AI-driven credit innovation
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (663+ words) Cape Town is set to become a development hub for what is being positioned as the world’s first agentic credit-broking protocols for artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots — systems designed to allow these platforms to participate in the regulated, compliant sale of…...