When AI fails the language test, who is left out of the conversation?

Moiloa, CEO of Lelapa AI, who said her organisation is seeking community-specific solutions to improve AI functionality in African languages, at offices in Johannesburg, on July 9, 2024. AI is exploding around the world, but the technology’s language models are primarily trained in English, leaving many speakers of other languages behind. — The New York Times

Stanford researchers gave a popular artificial intelligence chatbot a language test.

They asked the bot in Vietnamese to write a traditional poem in the form known as “song thất lục bát” that follows a pattern of lines made up of seven, seven, six, then eight words. When the bot spit out an answer, it wrote a poem but didn’t follow the format.