AI researchers say ChatGPT and rival chatbots are significantly less capable in languages other than English, exacerbating the bias against non-English speakers
AI chatbots are less fluent in languages other than English, threatening to amplify existing bias in global commerce and innovation. LinkedIn: Pascale Fung , Hans Uszkoreit , Yasmina Jraissati , and Sandhya Surendran . Mastodon: @kentborg@social.tchncs.de Tweets: @blader , @dxmartinjr , @aleyda , @senalexpadilla , @alexpadilla4ca , and @dorrego LinkedIn: Pascale Fung : I wanted to promote multilingual LLM research. Hope the message came through in my interview for this article. — https://www.wired.com/... Hans Uszkoreit : It is quite amazing how well the top LLMs handle other languages and also how many languages they respond to. … Yasmina Jraissati : Sharing a fascinating, thought provoking article here. — Speaking of non English languages being left out of the generative AI revolution: we have a real problem in Arabic. … Sandhya Surendran : Well, that's some food for thought. I'm buzzing with observations on this, but one point sticks out - I'm assuming AI has its origins in … Mastodon: Kent Borg / @kentborg@social.tchncs.de : @Techmeme Sounds like a blessing, other languages being less attacked by LLMs. Tweets: Siqi Chen / @blader : the state of technology journalism today: chatgpt is bad actually because it isn't equally competent in all languages yet. why does anybody pay attention to these people any more? [image] Donald Martin, Jr / @dxmartinjr : This can't be solved without a priori cultural context knowledge that comes from real people embedded in the culture. ""a multilingual model might associate the word dove in all languages with peace even though the Basque word for...https://www.linkedin.com/ ... https://www.wired.com/... Aleyda Solis / @aleyda : ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the AI Revolution - Happy to see this topic covered in @WIRED (and my quote in there!) 👇 https://www.wired.com/... Thanks @peard33 🙌 [image] Senator Alex Padilla / @senalexpadilla : Nearly 44% of Californians speak a language other than English—and they're being left behind in the AI revolution. That's why I'm pushing for these technologies to be developed more equitably. Read now: https://www.wired.com/... Alex Padilla / @alexpadilla4ca : The information and education benefits of AI cannot be exclusively reserved for English speakers. https://www.wired.com/... David Orrego-Carmona / @dorrego : “Any good Spanish results are a bonus.” The title of the article could easily be that language models are cutting languages out. The position of English in LLMs is problematic because it ends up enhancing language barriers. https://www.wired.com/...