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William Gaver



OpenSpeaks Before AI: Frameworks for creating the AI/ML building blocks for low-resource languages

Posted: Wed, April 05, 2023 - 9:23:00

There has been a tremendous push on many levels to make artificial intelligence– and machine learning–based applications ubiquitous. Soon, the life decisions of almost every digital technology user will be affected by some form of algorithmic decision making. However, the development of large language models (LLMs) that drive this research and development often lacks participation from diverse backgrounds, ignoring historically…

Why I lie to my kids

Posted: Wed, May 22, 2013 - 2:52:21

When she was about five, I told my daughter Emmie about a girl named Priscilla who swallowed toothpaste instead of spitting it out after brushing. She did this every day, week after week and month after month, because she liked the taste of toothpaste. After some time, however, Priscilla found that her joints were getting stiff. A little while later,…