The World Bank on Tuesday called on developing countries to embrace artificial intelligence technology tools to deliver better governance outcomes, warning that they risked being left behind if they failed to do so.
“AI has thrown developing economies a lifeline, and they should seize it,” the Chief Economist of the World Bank Group, Indermit Gill, said as the organisation launched its annual World Development Report.
“They do not need large models or big data centres to reap its benefits,” he added, advocating for the adaptation of lower-cost AI tools to local conditions to deliver results in the health, education, justice and agricultural sectors.
Advanced AI models — largely developed in the United States and China — offer the ability to quickly analyse data and automate many tasks that otherwise take skilled humans longer to do.
These AI models, however, require huge data centres and large amounts of complex computing power,
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