Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the ...

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

A new paper finds that while popular AI models may not be outwardly racist, they are covertly racist when it comes to African American English. Reading time 3 minutes A new paper found that large ...

Man... The answer my AAGM (African American Grandmother) who give to that question raised in AAVE is "Not you, until you learn to speak to me in English!!". I guess ...

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Howard University has partnered with Google Research to enhance the ability of artificial intelligence to recognize and better process African American English (AAE). Called Project Elevate Black ...

Howard University has partnered with Google to spearhead efforts to enhance AI’s ability to understand African American English (AAE). Howard University has partnered with Google Research to enhance ...

That’s nonsense. Nobody is asking the LLMs to produce any bias. It processes how people are speaking or writing, and how other people react to it. And there is some way of speaking that many people ...