Researchers Work to Make AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT Fluent in More Languages
• Efforts underway to make AI chatbots like ChatGPT fluent in more languages beyond just English • ChatGPT and other AI models perform much better in high-resource languages like English versus low-resource languages • Researchers taking various approaches to improve multilingual abilities - optimizing tokenizers, improving training data, tweaking models post-training • India keen to boost AI abilities in local languages to power public services and chatbots for farmers • Teaching AI more languages important for exporting benefits of the technology globally, though challenges remain in lower literacy regions