Kenya, South Africa tops Africa in AI usage in schools - survey
Kenya and South Africa have emerged in the top position with the highest number of students who use Artificial Intelligence in Africa.
This was revealed in a survey conducted by Chegg.org, a research arm of American education technology company Chegg.
Focused on addressing issues facing modern students globally, the research showed that about 40% of students worldwide use AI for their university studies.
11,000 tertiary-level students aged between 18 and 21 years across 15 countries were questioned for the survey and out of this number, only two African schools emerged with responses about their use of the technology for learning purposes.
Responding to the question, “Have you used GenAI for your university studies”, Kenya topped the list with over 60% of its student population admitting to the use of the technology. South Africa emerged 11th with some 33%.
Saudi Arabia, Spain, Canada and Indonesia followed as the second highest, third, fourth and fifth with 62%, 62%, 54% and 53% respectively.
55% of these students said that their “top priority for improving GenAI is to see the involvement of human expertise in generating answers”.
50% of this number also said that they input questions for academic answers at least once every day.
50% more of these students also want their respective educational institutions to promote the use of AI tools to assess their performance, according to the survey by Chegg.org.
The majority of the respondents, 55%, who were asked how they use AI tools for their work also admitted that they are useful tools for understanding concepts or subjects while 53% of them mentioned that the technology helps them learn faster.
Artificial Intelligence tools simulate human intelligence processes using various technologies including computers.
