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In the early 1970s, a Nigerian student, Mudashiru Ayeni, believed he had invented a battery-powered robot office assistant and asked to personally demonstrate it to the head of state, Yakubu Gowon. He was sent to a psychiatrist instead.

According to a 1971 feature story by TRUST magazine:

▶️Ayeni made eight visits to the hospital before the psychiatrist certified him to be of sound mind.

▶️The 20-year-old student then wrote to his school principal about the role young Africans were expected to play in the continent’s development.

▶️This time, he was banned from classes and forced to quit school entirely.

▶️Ayeni later reached out to Nigeria’s Federal Commissioner of Communications, Aminu Kano, who encouraged him and gave him a renewed sense of purpose.

▶️How his robot worked: at the press of a button, it told the caller whether the boss was busy, available, or away from the office.

▶️At the time the story was published, Ayeni said several businessmen had already expressed interest in his invention.

fuckingAyaya:
Just the way researchers/scientists from Africa discovers the antidote for any deadly virus goes missing mysteriously. If you doubt me, just tell the public that you have discovered the drugs for cancer or hiv and see if you will live to tell the story.

Kaczynski:
AI should be the least of our problem when we cannot even generate power or even feed ourselves properly.

Kaczynski:
AI should be the least of our problem when we cannot even generate power or even feed ourselves properly.

Fekumzi123:
You can't feed yourself
Just get a job now. It must not be white-collar.
I am presently feeding myself, wife and three kids. I didn't know I can do it but I'm doing it.
Get a job bro, anyone no matter how small before you get left behind completely

dalongjnr:
We are blessed,but cursed with bad and backwards leadership.

APOPTOSIS:
Simple
I don't want to believe it is cursed beyond redemption but I may be coerced into believing such. Same way Deeper Life Members were manipulated into avoiding TVs those days yet no apologies rendered.

Baawaa:
African,we don't believe in ourselves

budaatum:
I think I might live if I "just tell the public that you have discovered the drugs for cancer or hiv". I think I might starve too if no one believes me, or I might end up killing people who do believe me.

A certain Temitope Balogun Joshua told the public that he had discovered the drugs for hiv. I know a man he healed and told to stop using medication, and the man was so grateful he gave Temitope one of his houses. Unfortunately, the hiv returned and he was rushed to a doctor who told him how stupid he was and put him back on medicine. But the man went back to Temitope, who told him "o ye of little faith", and healed the man again and told him to stop the medication, and Temitope was given another house in gratitude by the man. But the illness returned and doctor treated him again till he was stabilised. The man went back to Temitope who told him to have more faith, and healed the man who gave Temitope another building. But when the man stopped taking his medication and fell ill this time there was nothing the doctor could do and the man died.

I heard this story of the dead man who believed Temitope could heal him, in a meeting where relatives of the dead man were determining how to house the wife and three children the dead man left behind after Temitope Balogun Joshua who told the public that he had discovered the drugs for hiv had kicked the family out of the houses the dead man who believed him had given him.

Basically, one does not "just tell the public that you have discovered the drugs for cancer or hiv", and the public should be wise enough not to just take your telling them as fact because you just told them. One proves one has discovered the drugs for cancer or hiv by showing evidence to prove it. And as far as medical evidence goes, one better know how it ought to be presented or only fools who'd end up dead will believe you.

Melezenawii:
In the early 1970s, a Nigerian student, Mudashiru Ayeni, believed he had invented a battery-powered robot office assistant and asked to personally demonstrate it to the head of state, Yakubu Gowon. He was sent to a psychiatrist instead.

According to a 1971 feature story by TRUST magazine:

▶️Ayeni made eight visits to the hospital before the psychiatrist certified him to be of sound mind.

▶️The 20-year-old student then wrote to his school principal about the role young Africans were expected to play in the continent’s development.

▶️This time, he was banned from classes and forced to quit school entirely.

▶️Ayeni later reached out to Nigeria’s Federal Commissioner of Communications, Aminu Kano, who encouraged him and gave him a renewed sense of purpose.

▶️How his robot worked: at the press of a button, it told the caller whether the boss was busy, available, or away from the office.

▶️At the time the story was published, Ayeni said several businessmen had already expressed interest in his invention.


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Richtaiwo:
Even Albert Einstein was once regarded in his time as mentally slow or lacking discipline. Therefore, Muda’s case is far from unprecedented. Indeed, some psychologists have argued that genius may, at times, be linked with elements of madness.

What Muda saw nearly half a century ago is only now being uncovered by the world of technology.

TheStoriesOfMan:
The way people abuse the term AI, especially in Africa is baffling.

You call "that" technology AI?

That's mechanical automation, not AI.