AI used to rescue endangered languages – MonitorExpresso.com

World. – Engineers have developed a tool based on artificial intelligence (AI) that would allow the preservation of endangered languages with few resources. In an interview with WIRED, engineers Jared Coleman and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, from the University of Southern California, announced the development of an AI tool designed to rescue Paiut, an indigenous language of the Owens Valley.Jared Coleman, who earned his PhD in Computer Science, has a personal connection to Paiut, the language of his tribe, Big Pine Paiute of the Owens Valley.Motivated by the lack of resources to learn his ancestral language, Coleman decided to use ChatGPT to explore and learn the language. I’m Native American and my tribe’s native language has always interested me. I’ve taken classes and so on, but it’s very difficult to learn an endangered language because there aren’t as many resources or tools available,” Coleman explained.The innovative approach developed by Coleman and his professor, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, combines rule-based translators with large language models (LLMs), creating a practical and effective system for resource-poor languages.

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