Her Story
About Charity
I've been working in AI for 3 years now, testing tools and figuring out how to incorporate them into businesses. This really took off at the end of last year. I worked with a company in Jersey bringing AI systems into their business, and then I got a contract with XI at their data center in Memphis, Tennessee, where I was team lead for 3 months. I've been working on several projects with Kunal, who teaches AI, and we've collaborated on multiple initiatives. I've partnered with a company called TID LLC to build AI assistants, and we're setting up AI agencies for various businesses. A lot of companies are reaching out to me, including the Federal Inland Revenue Services from Nigeria, asking me to set up digital assistants for them. I've been focusing on doctor's offices, setting up AI assistance to minimize call logs and make sure they don't lose any clients calling them. I'm also admitted to Rutgers University for my PhD in Health Informatics, which ties into my AI work. I'm currently building something on how to manage data with AI, bringing in SQL on the CRM platform, working with a doctor in health informatics from Pakistan. I just got an email from NVIDIA today for training because I did most of their feedback from the XI project. I also run the Charity Ohotu Foundation for Health and Education, where we enrolled 23 kids into school this January. I'm working on building an app for women to help reduce maternal mortality in Nigeria, trying to incorporate the three major Nigerian languages so women can speak in their mother tongue. Last week I was at Walmart upstate doing installations as team lead for their distribution center automation, working with Symbiotic company on a 12-hour shift.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Charity
01What do you attribute your success to?
I've built a system for myself that works over the years. I surround myself with positive-minded people. When you have those kind of people around you, you are able to stay on track. I have a plan in my system, and I devote time to each task the way it suits. I try to balance it with my time schedule, like this is what I'm doing this week, next week this is what I'm doing. I try as much as I can not to disappoint people and always be available to catch up with whatever they are doing, share my advice, and share tools that can help benefit their project or speed up the process. One singular disappointment can actually make someone stop a project halfway, so I try to create that time for people because somebody's project can rely on me for just one part.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say, start from anywhere. Start from your phone if you can. The time you spend on social media, watching reels, invest that time in learning one tool per day in AI. I never knew I was gonna be great on it. I started with my phone. I was intrigued about most of the things AI could do. For any woman who is out there and trying to think, like, oh, will I be able to do it or not? Yes, they can. Anybody can. You just need to put your interests down, like cut down the percent of time you use in watching reels. Look for people who are always talking about tools and all online. Kunal is a good person, a resource person I'll always send anybody to, go look him up, he talks about it. I started testing the tools, the models, and trying to understand how it works. I like to test things, trying out everything. A lot of these things don't just come from anywhere. I started with my phone.
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