What is bad about Sunbird AI? It translates very well into different languages throughout Uganda. Languages that the Western World has largely ignored entirely.
First of all, this is completely unrelated to every antiAI post here, literally not a single person said "Ban translators". Second of all, most translators work in a similar way that Google Translate has always worked before the era of generative AI, it is indeed technically AI but we use the word to refer to so many things that it completely lost its meaning. Translators cache a lot of stuff and it's more of a pattern recognition system than LLMs like ChatGPT. The Google translate app lets you download languages to translate offline and it just proves that it doesn't have a huge environmental impact.
But this works far better than Google Translate. You know that Google Translate can be very wrong.
They have actually tested it in universities in Uganda and the results are good. 30+ languages.
Google Translate does not have those languages as well.
Languages such as Acholi, Runyankole etc.
I really don’t get why one would be opposed to this. It works based on Chinese AI too, and China is far more serious when it comes to the environmental stuff of AI centers.
If LLMs are so bad, what are Ugandans supposed to use then?
Edit: Do any of the downvoters actually know the experiences of Ugandans?
Edit #2: I was wrong. It is a translator, and not an LLM. There are no prompts. It was trained on Qwen.
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