Sama, a US training-data company, has announced plans to hire and train 2,000 youth and women to work on computer visioning projects for leading Fortune 500 companies. This initiative is part of Sama’s mission to expand opportunities for the underserved through the digital economy in Kenya and Uganda. Sama’s efforts align with the government’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BeTA), on the Digital Economy Transformation, and the AI value chain can generate value equivalent to $2.6 trillion (Sh379.9 trillion) to $4.4 trillion (Sh643.1 trillion) in global corporate profits annually. The 2,000 new Sama employees will be trained in computer vision and data labelling services, a field in high demand by AI developers and Machine Learning (ML) engineers globally.
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