[liberationtech] AI ... and non-English languages. A view from India (Anivar Aravind)

[Frederick Noronha]

Anivar Aravind... a techie and Free Software evangelist for many many
years...
Meeting up in Goa, and taking stock of life, his career, and how the field
has changed in the world of FOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software).
Recorded by Frederick Noronha (FN).
https://youtu.be/ycrQ7PPGHtU

AI ... and non-English languages. A view from India (Anivar Aravind)
There's a race on around larger and larger language models without looking
at the core linguistic issues this presents. Generative AI is based on
next-word or context prediction which is primarily built around English.
Other languages are facing issues of data scarcity, data droughts and other
issues, says Anivar Aravind, a techie I've known from the Free Software
world for ages now. Morphological script complexities around languages,
such as Hindi, etc. All these issues are there. Bigger issues are also
around the absence of proper technology and academic research around the
languages.  Much of this depends on FOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source
Software) efforts, he says. Check out the issues here...
https://youtu.be/fQpzyoEww6E
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FN * +91-9822122436 * 784 Saligao 403511 Bardez Goa



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