Mandy Park
GreyDots AI on Friday, 14th June, inside the Grand Ball Room, Eko Hotel and Towers, Victoria Island, Lagos màde history in Nigeria’s technology as it launched it’s first AI solution entirely developed.
This is as the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of GreyDots AI, Arnold Agure-Dam boasted with enthusiasm that the latest feat would end the Google era, promising that NiGPT will have real local solutions to address specific problems across sectors.
Also the event provided opportunity for the organization to highlight AI’s potential to revolutionalise almost all sectors including: agriculture, finance, education, judiciary, entertainment industry,, healthcare etc, making these critical services more accessible to all Nigerians.
The occasion was indeed the birth of Artificial Intelligence specifically tailored to bond with Nigeria, and Nigerians as well as speak to the national, local and indigenous nuances, and narrative of the people.
In an exciting and brilliant presentation of the digital package, Agure-Dam, christened Nigeria Info’ Generative Pre-trained Transformer (NiGPT), with promise of transformation, designed to address local needs with global technology standards.
According to Agute-Dam: ”The innovative AI is not just a product, it’s a promise of transformation, designed to address local needs with global technology standards.
“The introduction of this AI marks a significant milestone in Nigeria’s technological revolution”.
To be sure, A.I. has not just debuted in the country but its emergence signposts an amazingly designed offer that now proffers instant, concise and comprehensively satisfying seamless solutions to the information desire of Nigerians across all fields of endeavour, be it academics, economy, politics health agriculture among other aspects of life and living.
Agure-Dam hinted further that though, the emergence of ChatGPT spelt the end of the Google era, the birth of NiGPT had the capacity to relegate the ChatGPT to the back seat in terms of real time indigenised solutions to information needs of the Nigeria’s enlightened populace seeking reliable and detailed information on any topical issue from across the sectors .
He said the latest device is cognisant of our cherished values as it captures the essence of our cultural bent much better.
Agure-Dam noted that ”While ChatGPT, akin to a hybrid of the conventional Google, gives what could pass for estimated, or at best, summarised information about a topical issue indigenous to Nigeria, NiGPT possesses the capacity to provide the required information on economy, politics and other fields in Nigeria and promptly too.
“”NiGPT also has the capability to highlight our true strengths even as it helps to address our weaknesses.
”The NiGPT 2.1 for example, is a model learning tool, enhancing learning for the Nigerian students with the capability for image generation even as it is dialect-sensitive.””
With the emergence of NiGPT, Agure-Dam revealed that Nigeria would be on the way of being positioned as a hub of tech innovation in Africa.
He stressed that NiGPT, especially its 1.1 version promotes responsible AI behaviour, respect for Intellectual Property as it possesses most improved machine-tailored answers to Nigeria issues, adding that it is empowered to provide narrative of our culture correctly, while curbing wrong presentation of our reality.
Furthermore, Agure-Dam, highlighted how AI contributes to economic growth by enhancing productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness.
He said that by freeing up human capital for more creative endeavours, AI fosters enhanced overall productivity as well as driving innovation across various sectors, just as it empowers businesses to make data-driven decisions, optimise processes, and uncover new opportunities, thereby generating job creation and skill development in Nigeria’s evolving technology space.
Earlier in a keynote addess at the occasion, Dr. Uche Nnaji, Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, commended the giant strides recorded by GrayDots in pulling off such an innovative AI project.
Represented by Prof. Martins Emeje, Director-General, Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency, he assured support for any effort directed at enhancing the use of technology in the country, noting that tech should link up with our cultural heritage for comprehensive impact.
He declared support for AI in assisting development in the country.
On his part, Ayodele Olawande, Minister of State for Youth Development, declared that rather than take the place of man, AI would help humans to become more effective and efficient, so as to achieve greater results in less time.
Furthermore, the Minister said he was excited that Nigerian innovators were thinking of locally-compliant solutions that could drive productivity in sectors with potentials for job creation.
Dignitaries that graced the prestigous ocassion included Nigeria’s Minister of Information represented by Mr Sunday Baba; the Minister of Innovation and Technology ably represented by Prof Martins Emeje.
Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, was ably represented by his young Commissioner for Science and Technology, Tubosun Alake.
Meanwhile, NiGPT could be accessed via www.nigpt.ai
