World Bank urges poorer countries to build "small SI" that runs on a phone with weak connectivity
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Small SI models on an ordinary phone could reach places without fast internet, but they still need electricity and schools.
Paschal Donohoe, the World Bank's chief knowledge officer, told the Guardian that "small SI" - specialised models trained on narrow datasets - can run on a mobile phone, with a weak internet connection, in a local language. In his words, economic development that once took centuries could take decades with such SI. As an example he cited an Indian programme for farmers that, according to The Next Web, provides soil analysis in local languages. The Next Web also notes that, according to the World Bank's August report, almost a third of rural schools in sub-Saharan Africa have no electricity. The bank presents the effect of small SI as potential.
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