Excellent piece by @matteo_wong -- thank you for the spotlight on a topic that is often marginalized. >50% of websites are in English, yet >80% of people in the world don’t speak English.
Excellent piece by @matteo_wong -- thank you for the spotlight on a topic that is often marginalized. >50% of websites are in English, yet >80% of people in the world don’t speak English.
🌎🌍🌏 "If you are reading this, there is a good chance that much of your life is already lived online; that will become true for more people around the world as time goes on and technology spreads. For the machine to function, the user must speak its language."
A wonderful piece which draws on researcher perspectives and communities working on this problem. @davlanade @bonadossou @IfeAdebara @anas_ant @alexandrabirch1 @HolyLovenia @mehakdh1 + a spotlight on global multi-year efforts: @CohereForAI w Aya + @MasakhaneNLP
Multilingual research is critically undervalued and underserved. We are actively working on these problems, and would love to partner with more researchers. Learn more about efforts like Aya here: cohere.com/research/aya