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African languages for AI: The project that's gathering a huge new dataset

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African ...
Popular Science

AI programs often exclude African languages. These researchers have a plan to fix that.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. There are over 7,000 languages throughout the world, nearly half ...
MIT Technology Review

This company is building AI for African languages

AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that. Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer ...
WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

1.3B people worldwide speak African languages. Why don't Milwaukee colleges teach more of them?

A WUWM listener asked why colleges in Milwaukee don't offer African languages as foreign languages. Marquette and UWM only ...
Global Voices Online

Why tech giants must do more for African language inclusion

The tech giant Google announced that 15 more African languages would be added to Voice Search, Gboard talk-to-type, and Translate dictation on October 28. The languages included are Chichewa, Hausa, ...
Princeton University

Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.

As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models ...
The Conversation

African languages for AI: the project that’s gathering a huge new dataset

Vukosi Marivate is a Co-Founder of Lelapa AI. DSFSI is funded by the Gates Foundation, Meta, Google.org, ABSA (for the ABSA UP Chair of Data Science). Vukosi is a co-founder of the Deep Learning ...