Why AI needs to learn new languages
Efforts are under way to make AI fluent in more than just English
ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, an American firm, can give passable answers to questions on everything from nuclear engineering to Stoic philosophy. Or at least, it can in English. The latest version, ChatGPT-4, scored 85% on a common question-and-answer test. In other languages it is less impressive. When taking the test in Telugu, an Indian language spoken by nearly 100m people, for instance, it scored just 62%.
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This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Sending AI to language school”
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