Google opened its first Artificial Intelligence research center in Africa

Tech giant Google opened its first artificial intelligence center in Ghana, Africa. The Ghana research center was located in Accra, the capital of the country.

Similar AI research centres have already opened in cities around the world including Tokyo, Zurich, Israel, Berlin, Paris and New York.

"Today, we're announcing a Google AI research center in Africa, which will open later this year in Accra, Ghana. We'll bring together top machine learning researchers and engineers in this new center dedicated to AI research and its applications", earlier Google said in a statement.

The research scientist heading up Google's AI efforts in Africa, Moustapha Cisse said, "The team's goal is to provide developers with the necessary research needed to build products that can solve problems that Africa faces today. Most of what we do in our research centers at Google and not just in Accra, we publish it and open-source code, so that everybody can use it to build all sorts of things".

He added, "A team of Pennsylvania University and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture using TensorFlow to build new artificial intelligence models that are deployed on phones to diagnose crop disease. This wasn't done by us but by people who use the tools we built. When we do science, the results of our research, usually and hopefully because it is of good quality goes way further than we expect and we are hoping to see the same things happen here in Accra and across Africa".

The Ghana lab's mission will working on issues related to agriculture  health and education.