Chairman's Message:
Dear Esteemed AAIMLON Members, Welcome to the year 2025 seventh edition of the AAIMLON Newsletter. I am thrilled to engage with you once again as we continue to make significant strides in AI and machine learning across Nigeria and beyond. Your active participation in our community is what drives these advancements, and together, we are shaping the future of technology. In this edition, we spotlight exciting opportunities and share important news across the globe. Career Advancement Opportunities: Enhance your AI and ML Expertise: AAIMLON continues to provide members with a variety of resources to enhance professional capabilities in AI and ML. Explore these curated resources: Curated AI & ML Resources: Tech companies are pouring record capital into artificial intelligence. They’re not doing this because they can. They’re doing this because the opportunity cost of failing to invest is existential. The cost of getting it wrong is existential, too. Meanwhile, those who get AI right stand to redefine tech as we know it. Read more Regardless of where you are in your career, AI is likely changing how you work and will likely continue to do so at an accelerating pace for the rest of your working life. To adapt to these changes, make the most of AI’s possibilities, and ensure workers have the skills they need to thrive. Organizations should revive and reimagine mentorship so employees at all stages of their careers can benefit. Read more For all their impressive capabilities, large language models (LLMs) often fall short when given challenging new tasks that require complex reasoning skills. While an accounting firm’s LLM might excel at summarizing financial reports, that same model could fail unexpectedly if tasked with predicting market trends or identifying fraudulent transactions. Read more AI vision models have improved dramatically over the past decade. Yet these gains have led to neural networks which, though effective, don’t share many characteristics with human vision. For example, CNNs are often better at noticing texture, while humans respond more strongly to shapes. Read more LearnQuest's AI and ML Digest Peruse this compilation of recent technical posts, tutorials, and expert insights on AI, ML, and related technologies
Welcome to AAIMLON Insights:
Hello AAIMLON Members,
It is worth reiterating that Artificial Intelligence has come to stay and the debate over whether or whether not to accept/adopt it is needless, fruitless and baseless. The discussion now should be the survival of professions and professionals in the age of artificial intelligence. The prerequisite for the survival of occupations in the age of Artificial Intelligence is the adoption of AI in occupational operations. The fear and prediction of AI taking over the world is not manifesting completely so soon inasmuch as its creation and adoption still depend on human ingenuity. Read more Feature Articles: In recent months, major retailers like Adidas, The North Face, Dior, Victoria's Secret, Cartier, Marks & Spencer, and Co-op have all been breached. These attacks weren't sophisticated malware or zero-day exploits. They were identity-driven, exploiting overprivileged access and unmonitored service accounts, and used the human layer through tactics like social engineering. Read more The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. Read more GenAI is here to stay. The organizations that thrive will be those that understand its risks, implement the right safeguards, and empower their employees to harness it safely and responsibly. For many people, generative AI (GenAI) began as personal experimentation in homes and on personal devices. Now, however, AI has become deeply ingrained in workplace habits, creating productivity gains, but also exposing organizations to significant security gaps. Sensitive company data, inadvertently or otherwise, regularly finds its way into public AI systems, leaving IT and cybersecurity leaders scrambling to respond. Read more AI News Roundup: Gone are the days of six-fingered hands or distorted faces - AI-generated video is becoming increasingly convincing, attracting Hollywood, artists, and advertisers, while shaking the foundations of the creative industry. Read more Call for Contributions: Share Your Insights: Your contributions matter! Whether it is research, projects, or experiences, we want to hear from you. Reach out to us at mailto:info@aaimlon.org to learn more about submission guidelines.
Read more Connect with AAIMLON. - Visit our website: www.aaimlon.org - Email us: info@aaimlon.org Warm regards, Dr. Solomon Arase CFR (IGP, Rtd) Chair, AAIMLON, Nigeria.
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