Can small language models revitalize Indigenous languages? Brooke Tanner and Cameron Kerry discuss how small language models can offer a practical solution for low-resource communities.

Can small language models revitalize Indigenous languages?

My research on small language models' deployment in indigenous communities explores existing SLM applications, future research directions, and ethical considerations.
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Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual... We ask whether multilingual language models trained on unbalanced, English-dominated corpora use English as an internal pivot language -- a question of key importance for understanding how...

So researchers found out these AI models think in English even when you ask them in French to translate something to Chinese.

It shouldn't be surprising given most of the training set is in English, but it feels remarkably human.

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