OpenAI and Meta Will start withAfrican languageTraining Artificial IntelligenceLarge Modelto address the shortage of thousands of dialect models on the continent.
The project, which also involves French telecom operator Orange SA, is set to launch in the first half of next year, 1AI understands. Initially.The company will focus on two West African languages, Wolof and Pulaar, which are spoken by 22 million people in the region.
Orange SA eventually hopes to expand the program to more AI technology companies, building large-scale language models to help it communicate with customers in 18 markets across the Middle East and Africa. According to IT House.Africa has about one third of the world's languages, this scale coupled with limited funding and incomplete infrastructure means that very few of these dialects are incorporated into AI training models.
Orange will use the local language models to interact with customers and plans to make them freely available to public health and education services, as well as local companies and businesspeople, said Steve Jarrett, Orange's chief AI officer, noting that the program will be trained next year for other sub-Saharan African languages, such as Lingala, Kiswahili and Bambara.
In an email, Jarrett said, "Orange's vision is for AI and other related advances to reach everyone, including illiterate populations, who are currently unable to benefit from the potential of artificial intelligence."