Wednesday, August 28, 2024

ChatGPT is better at English than Tigrinya

From a recent Nature magazine podcast:
0:00 chat GPT has a language problem so my language is called T it's spoken in in 0:07 Ethiopia and also in a Syria ...

how we design 3:38 this technology how it could be used and the impacts it could have in this podcast we are going to 3:45 explore the relationship between llms and languages and ask what must be done 3:50 to ensure that AIs work for 3:56 everyone. I think everybody in the community agrees that we need to democratize AI there should not be 4:02 disproportionate benefit in one language versus the other, right? so we want Fair 4:08 access you know and we want to empower communities in different 4:13 [Music] 4:24 languages

I never heard of this language, so I google it:
Tigrinya is a Semitic language spoken in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia and central Eritrea1.
Actually, ChatGPT does surprisingly well in this language.

No, nobody agrees that ChatGPT should be equally beneficial in all languages. It is impossible. Most of the worthwhile training materials are in English, and English is well-suited to being the world's language of choice.

I post this as an example of how the leading science publication has gone Woke.

1 comment:

  1. Not all languages are created or used equally. Some are spoken by many, and some are spoken by precious few. If your culture is tiny, best prepare to learn another language of a larger culture if you wish to be heard.

    ReplyDelete