What Effective AI Capability Investment Looks Like in Low Resource Research Settings by Alejandra Carriero

Notes from three work­shops, and the eval­u­a­tion that should followMost efforts to widen ac­cess to com­pu­ta­tional re­search in the Global South treat hard­ware as the sole bar­rier. The solu­tion? Donat­ing ma­chines, pro­vid­ing con­nec­tivity, offer­ing com­pute ca­pac­ity. Hav­ing taught ma­chine learn­ing and com­pu­ta­tional neu­ro­science in Malawi and Nige­ria, I think the prob­lem has not been prop­erly ad­dressed, and this mis­match mat­ters more now than it did three years ago, be...