Andrew Bredenkamp retweetledi
We are hiring at @LelapaAI
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Lead. It could be you.
Job post ->
linkedin.com/jobs/view/3806…
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Andrew Bredenkamp
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Andrew Bredenkamp
@abredenkamp
Language AI founder, ex-CEO, investor / AI for social impact - CLEAR Global (@CLEARGlobalOrg)
Hard to say Katılım Eylül 2009
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Andrew Bredenkamp retweetledi
Nor surprises here. African countries you are on your own.
Roman Adamczyk@RomanAdamczyk5
Due to the new EU Digital Service Act (DSA), Twitter had to disclose the number of its staff working on content moderation issues (2294) and their language skills. It is even worse than what was expected. transparency.twitter.com/dsa-transparen…
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Andrew Bredenkamp retweetledi
Are you at #AIExpoAfrica?
🗓️Join us tmrw at our session on an #AI Maturity Assessment Framework for #SouthAfrica
Let's discuss how to monitor the #StateofAI adoption in SA & a baseline for a national #AIStrategy. Great partnership by @C4IRSouthAfrica, @saica_za & @fair_forward
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ICONIC! @tamati_biskit 's @TEDAI2023 talk was ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. ❤️
LLMs - little Language Models
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Andrew Bredenkamp retweetledi
.@TIME's list of the 100 most influential people in AI is out now! We’re so proud of our CEO, Pelonomi Moiloa (@tamati_biskit), for being named as a leading Innovator. Visit time.com/time100ai to learn more about the TIME100 AI list and Lelapa.AI. #TIME100AI
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Andrew Bredenkamp retweetledi
🚀 Exciting news!!
We're thrilled to announce the first close of our $40m venture capital fund and accelerator.
@FSDAfrica Investments (FSDAi), @Cisco Foundation, @USAID @ProsperAfricaUS , and tech investor @abredenkamp are backing us🌍Read more: techcrunch.com/2023/09/05/cat…
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I'm happy to share the electronic copy of my PhD thesis
"Natural language processing for African languages" publikationen.sulb.uni-saarland.de/handle/20.500.… . Happy reading especially if you are new to AfricaNLP.
A big thank you to my supervisor @dklakow & the examination committee members:
David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬@davlanade
Thank you @NaijaNLP Hallelujah! I'm happy to share that I defended my PhD today on "Natural language processing for African languages". The journey of 8 years is finally over. A big thank you to my supervisor @dklakow and reviewers: Prof. Alex Fraser & Prof. Benoît Sagot.
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Our CEO, Pelonomi Moiloa, announced as a speaker at TEDAI 2023. If you want to find out more about @LelapaAI lelapa.ai. Get in touch if you would like to find out how we can assist in your AI journey and/or partner. Find out about #TEDAI2023 twitter.com/TEDAI2023/stat…
TEDAI San Francisco@TEDAISF
We're announcing our first round of speakers for #TEDAI2023 with pioneers and trailblazers as they share their vision and work on the benefits and challenges of #AI in our society. Don't miss your spot! go.ted.com/TEDAI23 #TEDAI #AI #DareToKnow #DareToAsk
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ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the AI Revolution wired.com/story/chatgpt-… via @wired
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Lost in Translation: Large Language Models in Non-English Content Analysis cdt.org/insights/lost-…
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All this AI about, but I still can’t just enter a date in a spreadsheet in English and have it parse it. How hard is “Monday May 1st” -> 01/05/2023 (or 05/01/2023 whatever)?
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@aremuadeolajr And of course “being trained on language X” ≠ “being useful for any practical application in language X”.
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Asked ChatGPT how many African languages was it trained on and got a list of about 24 with a disclaimer of not being “too proficient”.
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@alienelf Jade - you are force for good in the world. Look after yourself.
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I'm going to put it out there: About a year ago I hospitalised myself due to a mental breakdown triggered by the field of large language models. No jokes
Opening twitter at the moment is actually a nightmare
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I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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🕵️♂️@tamati_biskit comes out of stealth mode and debuts @LelapaAI
Lelapa .AI is a socially grounded Africa-centric Artificial Intelligence research and product lab powered by the wisdom of resource efficient technology.
Location: Johannesburg
lelapa.ai
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This is welcome - at least it‘s a start.
techcrunch.com/2023/02/27/ftc…
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Important new guidance from CDAC member @CLEARGlobalOrg for the Türkiye–Syria earthquake response: a rapid overview of language issues and linguistic diversity in the affected region
🔗 7434578.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/7434578/…
#CommIsAid #TurkiyeSyriaEarthquake
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