Category: An African Studies Approach to AI

Automating Language, Losing Relationality: Feminist Reflections on African Language AI

A grandmother pauses before answering a child. The meaning of her words lies not only in the words themselves, but in tone, shared history, the relationship between speaker and listener, the setting, and even the silence that precedes the response. None of these become part of the training data for today’s large language models (LLMs). (read more...)