"Openai", "Orange" and "Mita" will train artificial intelligence on African languages

The French telecommunications company “Orange” agreed with a partnership with “Openai” and “Meta platforms” to train artificial intelligence programs in Africa languages, to address the problem of linguistic models of thousands of dialects on the continent of Africa. The three companies said in a statement released on Tuesday that the project will begin during the first half of next year, and will initially focus on two languages ​​in West Africa, which is Wolov and Poliar, who speak 22 million people in the region. Orange will work with “Mita” and “oben ai” to control and improve their models and test them with the original language owners. The French telecommunications company eventually wants to expand the project to include more artificial intelligence technology businesses to build major linguistic models to help communicate with customers in its 18 markets in the Middle East and Africa. Africa is home to about a third of the world languages. This number of languages, in addition to the limited financing and the deterioration of the infrastructure, means that a very small number of these dialects have been included in artificial intelligence training models. Orange and the training mechanism said “Orange” said it would use the capabilities of public cloud services in Europe and Africa to help train models as well as its data centers. This will train models using unknown internal data from customers interactions with their communications centers and a general data collection of these languages ​​of “Meta”. Orange will use the local language model to communicate with its clients, and plan to free it from public health and educational services, as well as for local businesses and business people, and Steve Jarrett, the head of artificial intelligence in Orange. The project will target training in other languages ​​in Sub -Saharan Africa, such as Lincalla, Swahili and Pambara next year. AI is affordable for everyone. Garrett said in ‘Ne -mail: “We see this initiative as a model of how artificial intelligence is currently used for the current one. Orange’s vision is based on artificial intelligence and other relevant developments within the reach of all, including illiterate population that cannot take advantage of the ability of artificial intelligence.” Orange AI will also allow Orange Company to get to its artificial intelligence models early, so that the introduction to the cellphone service can develop its uses, such as artificial intelligence -based sound reactions, in addition to providing additional data processing capabilities and host capabilities in European data centers.