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Google.org, the philanthropic arm of American tech giant Google, has granted US$1 million to Dr. Thamar Solorio, Vice Provost of Faculty Excellence and Advancement and Professor of Natural Language Pr ...

If your AI treats these identifiers as isolated columns in a table, the machine is essentially just memorizing a list. This ...

Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI models. More than 2,000 languages spoken in Africa are being neglected in the ...

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

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Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, newsrooms have been grappling with both the promise and the peril posed by generative AI. But not every publisher is equally prepared to pursue these opportunities ...

Kenya has entered the global artificial intelligence race with the debut of Simba AI, the continent’s pioneer AI chatbot capable of translating English into various local dialects. Simba AI is a ...