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The linguistic diversity of Africa and Its absence in AI development

Although Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world's languages – well over a quarter according to some estimates - many are missing when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence ...
UNESCO

African languages, the blind spot of AI

Researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), specializing in the study of digital technologies and their impact on the African labour market. Recently, a Kenyan ...
CNN

Africa has thousands of languages. Can AI be trained on all of them?

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 ...
The Conversation

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 ...