Western companies' one-size-fits-all AI strategies don't serve many of the world's populations. These African researchers are ...

Africa, a continent with over 2,000 languages, has largely been overlooked in AI training. The project will launch next year and initially focus on two West African languages: Wolof and Pulaar.

Friederike Lüpke is professor of African studies and chair of AfriStadi, the Africa Research Forum for Social Sciences and Humanities, at the University of Helsinki. Her research on small-scale ...