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Gates Foundation launches coalition to build more representative language data sets for AI

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Processing underrepresented languages and local dialects

The Gates Foundation formed a coalition with tech companies and philanthropies to build AI data sets for underrepresented languages. This group plans to coordinate speech and text collection over five years to reach three billion people. The work aims to replace unrepresentative web-scraped training data with community-sourced local dialects.

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