Telkom Business’ izwe.ai Brings Multilingual Translation Services to SMMEs
Telkom Business, in collaboration with Enlabeler, has introduced izwe.ai, an artificial intelligence-driven transcription and translation platform that provides businesses with speech-to-text services to create a cost-effective and convenient communication experience for SMMEs. Transcription and translation Through izwe.ai businesses can engage directly with multilingual transcription and translation services. The platform allows SMMEs to eliminate the manual…
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Why the Edge and AI Make a Good Partnership in Smarter Computing
The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its continued proliferation has seen the technology changing the functionality of computers by making them infinitely smarter and adept at meeting our daily requirements. A recent article by Scientific American provides examples of where AI can deliver solutions to issues such as the world’s current nickel shortage. Through…
How Digital Thinking is Unlocking 4IR Revolution
Moving at speed towards 4IR, spurred on by climate change and the net-zero imperative, has brought immense challenges. However, with these challenges we are also seeing industry players becoming more innovative, embracing artificial intelligence (AI), cloud technologies, using digital twins, and ultimately integrating data to operate more efficiently. If anything, the last two years have…
IBM Announces Real-Time AI for Transaction Processing
On Thursday, IBM an international tech company, announced IBM z16, a Telum processor that allows clients to infuse AI inferencing for real-time insights. This innovation is designed to enable clients to analyse real-time transactions, at scale — for mission-critical workloads such as credit card, healthcare, and financial transactions. IBM z16 also is specifically designed to…
Cell C Partners with GirlCode to Develop Coding Skills in SA Youth
South African telco Cell C has partnered with GirlCode, an SA-based NPO that seeks to empower women through technology, to bring a coding programme to youth aged between 10 and 18 years in South Africa. The GirlCoder Club is open to both boys and girls, however, to improve their levels of exposure to the ICT…
The 2 Challenges that SA’s “Culture of Digitalisation” Faces
Technology is only successful if it is used. And today, business leaders in companies around the world need to shift from a tech-centered view of digitalisation and start considering how to nurture a culture that embraces technology wholeheartedly. This shift is becoming increasingly urgent because mobilising teams, channeling resources, and accelerating learning and development doesn’t…
Why AI and Robotics are the Key to True Digital Transformation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics are terms used to describe machines with human-like abilities, or the simulation of natural intelligence in machines, that is programmed to learn and mimic the actions of humans. While this often brings to mind the walking, talking, humanoid robots of science fiction, the reality currently is far more mundane. There…