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Zimbabwean tech expert named in world's top 100 most influential people in AI
03 Oct 2023 at 13:56hrs | Views
Zimbabwean tech expert James Manyika has been named by Time magazine as one of the world's top 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence (AI).
Manyika is senior vice-president at Google and is at the cutting edge of AI development.
Said the Times, "Few AI leaders are as well-connected, or have as wide a breadth of AI experience, as James Manyika. Google's senior vice president of research, technology, and society has a Ph.D. in AI from Oxford, served as a tech adviser in the Obama Administration, and was both a visiting scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs and a McKinsey consultant. Now, Manyika, 58, also serves as a vice chair of the National AI Advisory Committee, the federal panel tasked with strategizing AI regulation."
Manyika is senior vice-president at Google and is at the cutting edge of AI development.
Said the Times, "Few AI leaders are as well-connected, or have as wide a breadth of AI experience, as James Manyika. Google's senior vice president of research, technology, and society has a Ph.D. in AI from Oxford, served as a tech adviser in the Obama Administration, and was both a visiting scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs and a McKinsey consultant. Now, Manyika, 58, also serves as a vice chair of the National AI Advisory Committee, the federal panel tasked with strategizing AI regulation."
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