AI-Enhanced STEM Education in Sub-Saharan Africa and Indian Ocean Island Nations using Whatsapp and GPT-4x in Local Languages

Authors

  • Laurie Butgereit

Abstract

In a 2016 report, the World Bank warned that Sub-Saharan African countries needed to boost performance in STEM subjects in order to become competitive in the global marketplace. The report presented the World Bank’s fears that Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development is being impeded by the lack of high-quality education especially in STEM subjects. In particular, poor performance in mathematics at both the primary and secondary school levels created barriers to improved economic outcomes. This paper looks at how the popular WhatsApp chat mobile app (along with web interfaces when WhatsApp is not appropriate) can be linked to OpenAI’s GPT-4 artificial intelligence system to provide tutoring in STEM subjects in a variety of human languages used in Sub-Saharan Africa.

https://doi.org/10.59200/ICONIC.2024.003

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Published

2024-12-10

Issue

2024: International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Computing Applications

Section

Articles