Author: Daniel Björkegren
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A roadmap for AI that speaks the world’s languages
This piece is written with Andrew Bredenkamp and Han Sheng Chia and is cross-posted at the Center for Global Development. For AI to benefit all people, it will need to speak their languages and understand their worlds. AI works well in English, French, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese—but that leaves 4 billion people whose native tongues and…
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How could AI impact developing economies?
While the internet has changed many things, the past year’s developments in AI suggests that accessing knowledge may have simply been a prelude. Once this knowledge has been ingested into machine learning models, it can be automatically synthesized. What impact might AI have on developing economies, and on the world’s poor? If AI is as important a breakthrough…