European AI companies want to make sure Google’s Bard and ChatGPT speak their language.
As the Financial Times (FT) reported on Wednesday (April 5), these artificial intelligence (AI) companies are working to improve the quality of responses from these chatbots in languages other than English. I’m in.
Among them is Silo AI, a Finnish company preparing a project to help build new large-scale language models that will help chatbots respond in languages such as Swedish, Danish and Norwegian. there is.
As the FT notes, the growing popularity of AI software by companies such as Microsoft-backed Google and OpenAI raises concerns about the use of powerful technology by a small group of US participants. voices are rising.
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The FT points out that Bard only works in English for now. And when ChatGPT supports multiple languages, reports show that users who did extensive testing with the chatbot found that its accuracy wasn’t maintained across all languages.
According to the FT, Silo AI is one of many groups looking to power the technology that drives chatbots in languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and German.
These projects come in a parallel effort by regulators to catch up and contain AI’s entry into the global economy.
“As ChatGPT explodes in popularity, global concerns about the lack of regulation in the AI industry grow, and lawmakers’ scrutiny of AI technology increasingly shines the spotlight on new regulation and innovation tugs.” and PYMNTS recently wrote.
For example, last week Italy outlawed OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 first after Italy’s data protection authority announced an investigation into alleged chatbot violations of the General Data Protection Regulation’s privacy rules and age verification practices. Western countries.
The technology has already been blocked by China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.
Italian regulators claim there is “no legal basis” to justify the massive data collection and storage of personal information used to “train” GPT-4 chatbots, temporarily limiting their use in the country. banned to
Italy’s move has prompted other European privacy regulators to take a closer look at AI tools, while regulators in Ireland, Germany and France are reportedly considering their own investigations.
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