African languages for AI: the project that’s gathering a huge new dataset

When a language isn’t in the data, its speakers aren’t in the product – and AI cannot be safe, useful, or fair for them.
Wired

AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures

Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages. We spoke about a new dataset she helped create to ...
Wired

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft

Harvard University announced Thursday it’s releasing a high-quality dataset of nearly 1 million public-domain books that could be used by anyone to train large language models and other AI tools. The ...
The Atlantic

Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI

Editor’s note: This article is part of The Atlantic’s series on Books3. Check out our searchable Books3 database to find specific authors and titles. A deeper analysis of what is in the database is ...

UC professor publishes dataset mapping Asian American literary canon

A new dataset containing 1,900 entries aims to reveal which works scholars consider “Asian American” and which voices may be ...
Electrek

Elon Musk-approved Tesla Full Self-Driving dataset doubled: what’s the state of FSD now?

The Tesla Full Self-Driving crowdsourced dataset that Elon Musk has approved has doubled since the CEO shared it last month. What does it say about the state of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving program now?