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Can AI speak Igbo?

SEASON 2, EPISODE 11: Chinasa Okolo on AI governance, low-resource languages, and the future of work in Africa, and much, much more...

Imagine you’re a Nigerian law student studying for the bar. You open ChatGPT. It can tell you, confidently, the capital of Arizona. It cannot tell you how a Lagos magistrate is likely to rule. About 52 per cent of the open internet is in English. Four or five other languages split most of the rest. Igbo is not on that list. Neither is Yoruba, Swahili, A…

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