Billions of people could be left behind by AI because it doesn’t understand them, Gates Foundation warns
- Billions of people risk being left behind by artificial intelligence because it does not understand their languages or the conditions they live in, the Gates Foundation has warned.
- The rapid rise in the use of AI risks widening the gap between rich and poor unless it is deliberately built to serve people in the world’s poorest countries, the Foundation’s annual report on global progress found.
- More than 90 per cent of the data used to train early large language models came from English-language sources, with leading AI speech-recognition systems makeing errors less than 6 per cent of the time i
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- Billions of people risk being left behind by artificial intelligence because it does not understand their languages or the conditions they live in, the Gates Foundation has warned.
- The rapid rise in the use of AI risks widening the gap between rich and poor unless it is deliberately built to serve people in the world’s poorest countries, the Foundation’s annual report on global progress found.
- More than 90 per cent of the data used to train early large language models came from English-language sources, with leading AI speech-recognition systems makeing errors less than 6 per cent of the time i
Sources: The Independent