AI, software testing to shape Nigeria’s economic future – Tinubu’s aide

Dr Tope Fasua, Special Adviser to the President connected Economic Affairs, says Artificial Intelligence (AI) and bundle investigating volition play defining roles successful shaping Nigeria’s economical transformation.

Fasua said this during the TestNigeria 4.0 league organised by the Nigerian Software Testing Qualifications Board (NGSTQB) and sponsored by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) successful Lagos connected Tuesday.

The taxable of the lawsuit was “Impact of AI connected Software Testing: Challenges and Opportunities.”

Fasua said Nigeria indispensable beryllium proactive successful adopting caller technologies, stressing that bundle investigating was nary longer a back-end enactment but a strategical operator of competitiveness, outsourcing and integer trust.

According to him, the nation’s youthful population, with a median property of 18.1 years, represents a demographic vantage that tin substance planetary integer innovation if decently trained successful AI and bundle quality.

“Artificial quality is disrupting industries, including outsourcing. Nigeria cannot proceed to vie lone connected low-cost labour.

“We indispensable physique worth by carving a niche successful AI-driven bundle prime assurance,” Fasua said.

According to him, Nigeria indispensable beryllium proactive successful preparing its workforce to vie successful the planetary outsourcing and bundle prime assurance space.

“Contactless systems are present the bid of the day. Cash is going away. Receptionists and baggage handlers are being replaced by machines. These are realities we indispensable hole for. Our young radical indispensable not beryllium near behind,” helium said.

He urged Nigerian younker to prehend technological and societal enactment opportunities by innovating, creating apps and gathering solutions that could vie globally.

He explained that the planetary outsourcing exemplary that erstwhile depended connected human-driven, debased outgo services was present being redefined by automation and AI.

“In the past, our spot was outgo effectiveness, but that exemplary is collapsing. Today, clients privation intelligent, businesslike and unafraid services. Nigeria’s accidental is to pb successful AI-powered prime assurance,” Fasua added.

He besides called for urgent concern successful education, integer infrastructure and argumentation reforms to hole young Nigerians for roles successful AI investigating and related fields.

Fasua further linked AI investigating to nationalist security, saying that fiscal platforms, telecom systems and public-sector applications indispensable beryllium reliable and trustworthy if the integer system was to thrive.

He noted that nations that failed to follow AI investigating standards risked producing anemic and unreliable systems that would erode nationalist confidence.

According to him, authorities is determined to mainstream exertion adoption by supporting innovation, backing probe and gathering partnerships with manufacture stakeholders.

Mr Bode Dare, President of NGSTQB, said TestNigeria had go the foremost level for mounting the docket connected bundle investigating and prime assurance successful the country.

Dare said AI was already enabling faster automation, predictive defect investigation and smarter trial coverage, but cautioned that challenges remained, including mediocre information quality, algorithmic bias, accomplishment shortages and AI hallucinations.

“You cannot inquire AI to make a trial script without checking it manually, due to the fact that hallucinations exist. That is wherefore we importune that Nigeria indispensable not beryllium near down successful AI testing,” Dare said.

He urged banks, fintechs, telecom companies, startups, and authorities agencies to follow AI investigating to safeguard their integer platforms.

Dare besides stressed the request for urgent certification, noting that the ISTQB Generative AI Testing Certification, which was launched globally, would equip Nigerian testers to some trial AI systems and use AI successful testing.

“This certification is astir the aboriginal of work. It ensures our endowment remains globally competitory successful bundle investigating and not redundant successful the AI era,” helium added.

He said NGSTQB’s efforts were aimed astatine creating a civilization of bundle prime successful Nigeria, wherever integer products conscionable planetary benchmarks and animate spot among users.

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