{"id":243201,"date":"2018-10-12T03:11:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T07:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=6eaa36d9dc1e9169b48c3c976060defd"},"modified":"2019-02-09T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T09:19:00","slug":"19-year-old-tech-genius-at-ethiopias-first-artificial-intelligence-lab-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/243201","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old tech genius at Ethiopia’s first Artificial Intelligence lab – CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 19-years-old, Betelhem Dessie is perhaps the youngest pioneer in Ethiopia’s fast emerging tech scene, sometimes referred to as ‘Sheba Valley’.<\/p>\n

Dessie is coordinating a number of nationwide programs run by robotics lab iCog, the Addis Ababa based artificial intelligence (AI) lab that was involved in developing the world-famous Sophia the robot.<\/p>\n

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She has four software programs copyrighted solely to her name – including an app developed for the Ethiopian government to map rivers used for irrigation.
\nAnd it all began when she was just 9. […] CONTINUE READING<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At 19-years-old, Betelhem Dessie is perhaps the youngest pioneer in Ethiopia’s fast emerging tech scene, sometimes referred to as ‘Sheba Valley’. Dessie is coordinating a number of nationwide programs run by robotics lab iCog, the Addis Ababa based artificial intelligence (AI) lab that was involved in developing the world-famous Sophia the robot. She has four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IA-developer-Betelhem-Dessie-1.jpg?fit=1029%2C629&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-11gB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243201"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243504,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243201\/revisions\/243504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}