Reimagining ethical AI for African futures.
The vision of the AI Institute is a world where everybody benefits equitably from the transformative power of AI. Its mission is to provide an inspiring ecosystem for researchers and students to do excellent AI research, creating tools and opportunities to support the transition to a just society.
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Professor Mosa Moshabela, Vice- Chancellor, University of Cape Town
AI Insights
Generative AI, Authorship, and the Dialectics of Imitation
AI music imitation raises questions of ownership, consent, and democratisation, revealing tensions between creative access and cultural appropriation in networked, algorithm-driven creative economies
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Generative AI: Remix or Slop?
Is generative AI simply another chapter in the long history of cultural remix, or has it crossed a threshold into something closer to pollution?
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UCT researchers develop AI model for 11 South African languages
UCT researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) language model trained specifically on South Africa’s 11 official written languages – helping close a gap that has left millions underserved by mainstream AI tools.
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Preface: AI, Imagination, and Cultural Production
Artists and scholars explored generative AI's impact on creativity, debating originality, authorship, and whether AI-driven imitation is extraction or participation in cultural production
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Assessments in the age of AI
Republished: UCT and Stellenbosch University academics met to tackle AI's impact on higher education assessments, exploring integrity, writing skills and outcomes-based approaches.
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PET-CTs, AI-interpreted chest X-rays can predict TB
Republished: UCT's CIDRI-Africa scientists found that PET and CT scans can detect TB years before symptoms or routine tests reveal it.
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