TANZANIA, Sept. 29 -- THE world is currently awash with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is the ability of a machine or computer to perform tasks that normally or previously required human intelligence, such as learning from information, recognising patterns, reasoning, making predictions, generating content or making decisions.

To avoid confusion, it is imperative to note that AI is not really thinking like human beings. It is people who write “codes” or commands, teach the computer to accept them and the computer or machine learns to follow them before producing the intended output.

For instance, a person can write a command instructing a computer that when it detects a maize leaf, which is usually green, tha...