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"There’s a lot of thought leadership out there about the right practices. The question is whether companies are holding themselves accountable." Speaking with Forbes' Megan Poinski, CEO Wendy Gonzalez shares how legislation like the EU's AI Act and moves from big companies are shaping the AI landscape and pushing towards responsible and ethical AI practices. Read their full conversation here: https://bit.ly/46ukcB8 #AI #artificialintelligence #aiact #ethicalai

🌟 We Did It! 🌟 We are thrilled to announce that our second virtual alumni event held on 23 July 2024 was a success! 🎉 Thank you to all our incredible alumni who joined us, shared their experiences, and made this event truly memorable. It was wonderful to reconnect, celebrate our achievements, and look forward to an exciting future together. But this is just the beginning! We are committed to keeping the momentum going with more engaging activities for our alumni network. Let’s continue to engage, inspire, and make a positive impact together! With thanks to Annita Kalekye Mwaniki, Angela Kamata, Lydiah W. Njoroge, Kristen Itani Koue, Annepeace Alwala, Wendy Gonzalez, and Jeff Shelton. #SamaAlumni #AlumniNetwork

“[Sama was] founded on this premise that talent is distributed equally but opportunity is not. We started with the mission first, and the core mission is what we then built a business problem to solve for around.” On the latest episode of the Mission Driven Business Podcast, CEO @Wendy Gonzalez sits down with host Brian Thompson to discuss how we centralize our mission in everything we do, which has led us to advocate for responsible and ethical AI practices up and down the supply chain. Listen to the full episode here: https://apple.co/4cQh7O8 #socialenterprise #esg

Annepeace Alwala is at the forefront of the #AI and #Data revolutions, leading the teams that are shaping that future for all of us. She came to this role starting as a call centre agent, fielding inquires and solving customer issues, and moving up the ladder from there. How did she find that first role ? FUN, she says with a bright smile on her face. Dynamic, mind boggling, challenging and ultimately fun. Access to, and ownership of, responsibilities within the cutting edge of tech is unique to the #BPO industry, and underrepresented in public conversation of #GenAI. Thank you Annepeace for sharing that aspect with us. What more can you ask of a first role ? It's #GameFaceOn. Sama #BPOAK Roselyn Maundu SHARON CHEPCHUMBA Jeremiah Okello Ishai Aloni Adi Engel #BPO2Africa #youthEmployment #jobCreation #Kenya

According to IBM, 72% of top-performing CEOs believe that competitive advantage depends on who has the "most advanced” GenAI models. Writing for CIO Influence, our SVP of GenAI & AI Product Duncan Curtis discusses the new "prove-it" era of GenAI in business—and different ways to implement it in order to maximize ROI. This includes taking a close look at your data situation. Read the full piece here: https://bit.ly/3LCyztg #genai #aibusiness #cio

📢 Exciting Announcement for All Sama Alumni! 📢 We are thrilled to invite you to our second virtual Alumni Convening on Tuesday, July 23, 2024! This event will feature a renowned speaker and offer an opportunity for continued networking and reconnecting with fellow alumni. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details. We can’t wait to see you there! More details are coming your way soon. In the meantime, please take a minute and register for the event here: https://bit.ly/46bgJqL #SamaAlumni #SaveTheDate #VirtualEvent #Networking

We've been named the Best AI Model Validation Solution for 2024! 🎉 Sama was specifically recognized for how we help customers bring higher-performing computer vision and generative AI models to market faster by eliminating delays associated with curating and labeling training data, along with validating model performance. Our specialized model evaluation and red teaming for GenAI and LLMs were another major factor in our win. The AI Breakthrough Awards, now in their seventh year, received more than 5,000 applications across a number of different categories. Other winners this year include NVIDIA, CrowdStrike, Adobe, SoundHound, AMD, Qualcomm, Lenovo, SAP, Verint, Honeywell, IBM watsonx, Sony AI, BMC, Zoox, Alteryx, Juniper Networks, Dell Technologies, OpenAI and more. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4cSOdgp

For #FeelGoodFriday, here's an infusion of culture, joy, and dance! Since 2022 we have celebrated Culture Week in our Nairobi, Gulu, and Kampala offices. Each day has a dress code — your best office wear, throwbacks to school uniforms, twinning with colleagues, Sama swag, and culminates with Cultural wear. The teams showcased vibrant cultural dances and traditional attires. The nerve-racking and energizing performances had everyone on their feet, turning the event into a thrilling competition! Tell us in the comments... did you dance along?!

Sama’s team always comes back from #CVPR energized and pondering new ideas, and 2024 was no exception. We're still thinking about some of the great conversations, datasets, papers, and presentations, such as: ⚡ That generative models are improving auto-labeling and synthetic data ⚡ The role for human annotators is evolving (not disappearing) as AI matures ⚡ How LLMs are colliding with Computer Vision Find our 3 key conversations (+ 2 datasets) from CVPR 2024: https://bit.ly/3XSMa7g Computer Vision Foundation #CVPR2024 #genai #HITL

While Gong has been releasing AI products—and winning awards for them at an impressive pace—they've also begun empowering customers to build their own models. And according to Jacob Eckel, Gong's VP of AI Platform Division, this ease of access for users holds the promise of a brighter future. In his interview on the #HowAIHappens podcast, Jacob shares the inner workings of Gong and how it trains its own models, what we need to do more of to build trust in chatbots, plus his take on why technology is advancing like a runaway train. 🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/3VT8XgH #GongAI #SaaSAI