It is time to Develop AI for African media
Explore a wonderful world of AI solutions, chatbots and coding for African newsrooms and journalists.
The fact that generative AI has made coding easier for everyone on the planet is the true game changer of the last year. It isn’t just AI language models like ChatGPT being able to write coherent stories (and even make pithy jokes) that should be making journalists reassess their place in the world, but that it can also help you build your own apps so you can improve your own journalism. This ease of CODING is what journalists need to exploit and explore.
This is the mission of Develop AI. We are a newsletter (like the one you are reading), a podcast that will invariably follow, a WhatsApp community and trainings for journalists to use ChatGPT to code efficiently.
So join me on this exciting AI and coding journey. It really is the future for journalists and media practitioners, particularly in Africa. We need to embrace what is going on and carve out a space in this new world order for ourselves.
Coming soon:
Our first app - a program that can fully generate an AI podcast episode.
The launch of the Develop AI WhatsApp community.
Online training sessions for how to code with ChatGPT.
A weekly newsletter of news, new tools and interviews (including, in the future, reporting about AI in Africa and a section that features reporting that has used AI successfully).
All the best,
Paul McNally | Founder | Develop AI
Cape Town, South Africa
paul@developai.africa
Exciting development, thanks for sharing.