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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 ...
EurekAlert!

Champion of computer science in Africa to receive inaugural Luiz André Barroso Award

Guerraoui is a Professor in the School of Computer and Communications Sciences at EPFL, where he is also Director of the Distributed Computing Laboratory. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, ...
Nature

Better data sets won’t solve the problem — we need AI for Africa to be developed in Africa

In May 2023 Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI in San Francisco, California, embarked on a 17-city world tour to promote artificial intelligence (AI) tools. One of the stops in the first week of ...
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 ...