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by blakers95 964 days ago
Hopefully we can use AI to preserve obscure and dead languages.
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Implying the effort and capital will come through go preserve those obscure languages, especially ones that originate from geographically isolated places. I'd love to see it in places like the Philippines where the aboriginal script and tribal patterns and designs are coming in vogue now.
Isn't a technical challenge, too? T

hose languages have barely any presence online, so there isn't remotely enough data to make a good translator... just look at Whisper accuracy for less institutional languages, for a reference

This is really what made me like LLMs