csimpkins, This company is building AI for African languages
> There are thousands of languages in the world, 1,000 to 2,000 of them in Africa alone: it’s estimated that the continent accounts for one-third of the world’s languages. But though native speakers of English make up just 5% of the global population, the language dominates the web—and has now come to dominate AI tools, too.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/17/1083637/lelapa-ai-african-languages-vulavula/ #language #ai #linguistics @linguistics