What are you doing this Saturday afternoon? Oh... only discussing how we can use technology I created for Future Caribbean for the tourism industry could be used to aid in natural disasters.
I met Geraldine, a lecturer in Communication at UWI in Trinidad via the Future Caribbean buildathon, where I was building Pulse. She then then invited me to speak at a panel at the One-UWI conference on BimOmni, the AI model I created that better understands Barbados.
Also on the panel was Akilah, a researcher at UWI in Jamaica, studying AI and misinformation during Hurricane Melissa.
I commented that Pulse's ability to record, transcribe and allow you to search through local radio could be useful during a natural disaster.
Next thing, Geraldine emails to suggest a collaboration to see how we could use Pulse's ability to ingest both broadcast (radio) and social (tiktok, instagram, etc) media to cross-reference videos in the aftermath of a natural disaster to help identify AI-generate misinformation.
And so... here we are on a random Saturday, three curious people from three Caribbean islands collaborating in the junction of AI, media, and disaster management.