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I started my AI journey back in 2024 with python using if else statements. Then I later started learning about the theory of how AI actually works, like tokenization, vector embeddings, GPT transformers and the rest eventually delving into the actual frameworks like tensorflow and Scikit-Learn. Those frameworks actually tested my patience especially tensorflow but I started using Keras for it which made it easier to use. Another challenge is that most of these AI coding sessions require massive resources like GPU instances for training so I mostly use Google Colab for coding sessions due to their generous free tier. Fast forward today, I'm still learning but have gotten better than before and have two students that I did a marathon online tutorials for. So feel free to reach out or ask any questions. Drop them here or you can email me.

But it's standalone course in other countries. What's the reason it shouldn't be in Nigeria?

as69:
Honestly, yes — but not as some standalone theoretical degree. AI should be integrated into existing Computer Science and Engineering programs as a specialization track.

The problem with creating a separate "BSc Artificial Intelligence" is that AI doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need solid foundations in mathematics, statistics, programming, data structures, and software engineering before you can do anything meaningful with AI. If you skip those fundamentals and jump straight to "prompt engineering" or running pre-trained models, you end up with graduates who can use tools but can't build them or understand why they work.

What Nigerian universities should do:
- Add AI/ML modules to existing CS programs (starting from year 2 or 3)
- Focus on the math — linear algebra, probability, optimization. That's what separates someone who understands AI from someone who just calls APIs
- Include practical projects using real datasets relevant to Nigeria — agriculture, healthcare, fintech
- Partner with companies doing actual AI work so students get exposure to real problems

As for employability — the demand is there globally, but you're right that the local market is still catching up. The advantage is that AI skills are highly remote-friendly. A graduate in Lagos can work for a company in London or San Francisco without relocating.

The bigger question is whether Nigerian universities have the faculty and infrastructure to teach it properly. You can't teach deep learning on machines that can barely run Chrome.

With the rise and advancements in AI, do you think Nigerian institutions should start offering it as a standalone course like BSC Artificial Intelligence? Other countries like US and UK already have it. Do you think it would have economic relevance? Could graduates be employable? Overseas, AI/ML engineers easily make six figures annually but I can't really see that happening in Nigeria anytime soon, what do you think?

So I built Unseen, a synthetic data engine. I needed various rare dummy datasets generated on demand like even weird combos for testing out some algorithms with Scikit-Learn and playing with some other AI framework. So I built this with Python as the backend basically with an LLM under the hood. Try it out here. Tell me what you think.
https://unseen-v91o.onrender.com/

Very stupid comment. He built something, that says something more than what you're even capable of. At least he did something. Don't be this foolish next time

gistray:
Chatgpt already does this.

Why would anyone leave Chatgpt and use your inferior website

What I described isn't AI slop. It integrates to the phone OS. It's a layer not a wrapper. How can you even compare the two?

Kaczynski:
I'm pretty sure you don't know what a monad is ?? The only thing you grasp about AI is from all those tweets shilling AI slop by brogrammers .

I mean those have millions of agents and I'm not sure about their guardrails so. But it's still a new technology. It would get better eventually.

airsaylongcome:
Your are seeing the “havoc” openclaw/moltbot is doing now right?

Yes they do starting off but increases as you scale and increase your spending

Shomek:
Nice one
Does the claude api have daily limits for requests

That's what I'm working on now. Trying to get an android OS version and scrap it and inject an agentic layer on top of the OS

gistray:
How about you build one with as a demo.

Using Android custom ROM

You only trust it temporarily for a task and there's no tool that does this the way I described, only automation tools yes but not for native mobile that integrates with the OS directly

gistray:
Then you'll have to entrust all your data to the AI. If anyone gets a hold of that ai all your account will be compromised.


Besides they'll tools already like N8 doing this.... You can also build your own Macros to do some automations

That's for companies not users. Haven't you thought of something maybe AI does something for you in the background on your phone instead of you doing it?

gistray:
What time saver?
Companies needs real users to use their phone and play with their apps so they can show them Ads or sell something to them not AIs.

They would. Yes they'd be wary cause it's new technologies but it'll be eventually adopted. Think about it, the time saver this could be.

gistray:
It will be used for Crazy automations, Spam... Android will never allow that neither will iOS

Thanks dude, appreciate the positive comment. Used html,CSS and JS for front-end, node.js for backend and logic. Used Claude API for AI functionality

Shomek:
Hello bro don’t mind all those folks saying shit nice work
Which api did you use for the ai ?
Which lang is it built with?

That's what I'm saying. You'd make a great employee for my company, the stubborn ones like you would make me richer 😁 You could even help me grow my net worth in exchange for a salary in the future, who knows? 😉

ChristCee:
🤣🤣🤣🤣 so this is your new angle. I made money for my startup working for others proudly. Even your parents worked for other people at a point in their lives. If everyone had their own company, it defeats what an optimal economy should be like.

My! 🤦 I have to teach you economics now? Tell me you won't grab the offer if Dangote asked you to come work as a Dev in his company for 80mil yearly revenue 🤣🤷‍♂️

Sam Altman, Elon, Warren, all these people worked for others at one point in their lives. That's how you sharpen your skills and validate your prowess. That's what make you a senior Dev and not some guy in his mother's crib coding dead forums.

It's a proud thing to work for others, even if you are gonna start your own company.😋😋😋

The thing about you is that you're a developer that's it. That's where it stops, an employee for others to achieve their dreams and can be replaced easily in the coming years with AI. You basically exist to make tech companies richer. That's why you can't think like a visionary or founder

ChristCee:
I haven't said so. But now that you have said it, I think I like it🙂😋😋. Seem like you are another mediocre developer not willing to face real world realities of this industry.

Hopefully would fine tune a custom model for this although maybe Claude would work well for an MVP

Alphabyte3:
To use android C++ call for agentic android studio requires NDK but you know MCP and Google ADK kit does that without any internal inbuilt API calls that can be run on apps or browsers . Google Gemini will be a first class AGI in the future

Hosting isn't the problem, building an agentic layer on top of AOSP is. It's basically going to be raw C++ for OS level permissions. That's the language I'm currently learning

Alphabyte3:
U will need tailscale or Headscale reliable VPN to run it actively to avoid hacks.

A piece of advice. Don't think too much about the downside like privacy or trust. No one wanted to sleep in other people's home then Airbnb came along same with Uber when you didn't trust strangers for a ride. I'm not saying this aren't valid concerns but think about how the upside outweighs the cons

What if it ran on device locally instead? Data on the phone stays private. There's a saying that once data is uploaded to the cloud, it can be compromised that's why some corps like Apple use on device processing

Alphabyte3:
You will have to give it all your data which is a major concern in data privacy. AI companies will know everything about you . It is a good idea but not ethical in some ways.

Of course you would eventually, that's how new technologies start. They'd be guardrails and confirmation before any action is finalized. AI agents already exist and multi billion dollar companies are started trusting and integrating them into their workflow.

BelloP:
Would you trust such a phone with your contacts, bank, location, camera?

Who's familiar with android open source project? AOSP? or working with OS like Linux? I think this could be a cool project. The potential upside is literally huge, think 8 billion + smart devices

Why isn't there a mobile OS that is fully AI powered and the ai capable of using our apps for us autonomously? Like think for a sec if that was possible, the AI being the second user able to do stuffs humans can with an app, the possibilities are endless. I think it would be possible with android if you fork out the AOSP and build an AI agentic layer on top of it but it'll require OS level permissions to be able to simulate touch virtually for control. What do you guys think? Any opinions or takes on how to tackle this? Drop it here

Appreciate the feedback. At the end of the day it was just an MVP built in two days. Nothing serious, just for fun.

Goldrosewine:
Not to discourage nor undermine your efforts, I know you probably put a lot into this project but NGL, I also think it's useless if you are positioning it as another forum. Maybe as a business forum for a small niche might work. Just my 2cents.🫰

Gold Rose 🍷

This is why the next big thing would come out of Africa. You don't even have sense in the startup world if you did, you'd know marketing isn't going to work for this, network effects would. And like I said, take your criticism elsewhere, it's not slop. Show me a product with AI at it's core you've built. You have nothing worthwhile to call another person whether he's a dev or not.

ChristCee:
Google is your friend. What you are building is dead on arrival. Reddit killed all forums years ago, unless you have 500k in marketing budget, you won't even be able to solve the cold start problem in this era.

Build something meaningful man. I am doing you a huge favour with this harsh criticisms

Very dumb take. I've been coding before AI. Using dart for flutter and swift for iOS. That's why I'm sure there's nothing you've done that could amount to half of what I've built since I started coding.

ChristCee:
A vibe coder.
He also technically didn't host it.
It takes a lot to be a developer not just throwing words at an AI

I'm not taking the criticism. I literally trained two people from the US on AI , based in silicon valley to be precise. They found me here on one of my post and reached out themselves.Or you want to compare silicon valley to Russia?You don't even know half of what I know in ai. You're just judging from either the free hosting or bad UI not even thinking of logic or use case.And of course I'd take you on your offer on an open contest cause it seems you're all talk.

ChristCee:
🤣🤣🤣🤣 🤣🤣🤣 In 2025, I completed several high profile projects for the Russian military under strict NDAs.

Take the harsh criticism, it's the best way to learn.

If you wanna put your money where your mouth is, let us both do an open Nairaland contest. Nairalanders will be the judge. Just chose a project of your choice and I will gladly participate. If you win, I'll hand you a 500k cheque

We'll, not disrupt, create a new market entirely but yeah I see your point. But the incumbents are ripe for disruption with AI anyways so I thought it was worth a shot. It was a thought experiment at the end of the day.

airsaylongcome:
If you wanted to disrupt, it's Reddit? Really? What would make me leave Nairaland for your so-called viewnet let alone reddit. Even Lemmy with a much bigger user base and fully open source codebase hasn't come close to "disrupting" Reddit

Yep

gistray:
So you're using Mistra 7b?

Thank you, literally. This is my fifth AI project I'm building. Literally had the idea on Friday and built it within the weekend. I don't understand why everyone here is insecure

gistray:
He did develop it and host it.

Even if the app is useless he's indeed a developer

What's wrong with you honestly? Do you people know what an MVP is? And I'm not getting a stupid vps for cause of a stupid post of yours. It's a thought experiment of mine. It's not meant for commercial use or to take down Nairaland. Just an MVP built within the weekend so get off. Don't tell me to try harder, use your brain and understand it's just a website built in two days. I didn't build this for you even. Who even are you?

Kaczynski:
AI slop



Try harder and get a VPS , it's cheap.



Stop using fsucking free hosting .

Are you even a technical person? What makes you think you know who is a dev is? And I ask you again, have you even used it? Honestly don't know what's wrong with you, I built that within a weekend sprint so of course it wouldn't be perfect. Stop criticizing something you can't even fathom or even capable to build. This isn't my first AI project so please get off my back. Crazy take from someone I didn't build for or even know

ChristCee:
It's a foolish MVP, thats not a product at all minimum or not. Throwing prompts foolishly at an AI without clear cut logic doesn't make you a dev

None, I fine tuned mistral 7b. Deployed it to AWS

gistray:
What API are you using for the AI?