Nigeria’s AI Ambition Needs a Data Foundation
We should invest aggressively in AI. But not every problem is an AI problem, and AI can't make up for digital infrastructure we haven't built.
We should invest aggressively in AI. But not every problem is an AI problem, and AI can't make up for digital infrastructure we haven't built.
Lessons from building an MCP server over Nigerian news and data: an empty result is an answer, and a model will believe whatever your tool implies.
When a model's answer goes out under a real person's name, a wrong answer costs more than a blank one. How I made a model cite approved facts, and how code, not the model, decides what gets used.