Although Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world’s languages, many are missing when it comes to the development of AI.
Most AI tools, such as ChatGPT, are trained on English as well as other European and Chinese languages.
But as many African languages are mostly spoken rather than written down, there is a lack of text to train AI on to make it useful for speakers of those languages.
Researchers who have been trying to address this issue have recently released what is thought to be the largest known dataset of African languages.
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Africa will go through industrialization but not with humans but with Ai and that means not enough jobs
Loca Africanl languages are apart of deepseek and other non Western models
no one cares africa
Is there electricity in Africa?
https://youtu.be/nAh4aSPiX0w?si=Qijtpjyih1dyid1S
That is amazing! I hope they prosper!
AI, is Superstition,
Intelligence can Never be artificial.
They keep africa behind so they can take the resources for themselves
first of all we are not left behind second is evrybody in your own country can use ai i am pretty sure not even 99 percent know what it really is
It would be cool if you input EVERY LANGUAGE across Africa, and then asked Ai to create a common language for all of them 🤯
It would be beautify to build LLMs based on spoken word. Written language loses dimensionality of speaking.
Not good at all.
This is hugely important and can be a source of huge gains if done right
Glad that AI is now stealing jobs in Africa. The place where employment for local africans is probably quite important.
Asking an LLM for farming advice? It certainly will recommend glue for fertilizer…
Very interesting.
Haaa We Don't Fully Relay on Internet but Ma Skits chete.
But yes A.I can do great as long our Zimbabwe and African Developers Puts in the innovation besides waiting for government support
AI Should help the World!
Wow thats amazing, if any needs AI its Africa tbh lol
AI is overrated
I see
痛ましい
Hai ai Google
Top of the most useless thing in our world: 1 place in this list is AI in Africa for instance the government have to medicine more cheaper than nowadays
Yeah make the stupid even more stupid
No I don’t want AI to understand my language.
Youth, population growth, and demand -the young population; there’s strong demand for better services in agriculture, education, healthcare, finance etc. AI is being seen as a tool to leapfrog some older infrastructure challenges.
AI before education
good
It seems to me that the news has no idea what they are talking about when it comes to AI.