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Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture


Indigenous languages are rapidly disappearing, and AI could help preserve them, according to Indigenous technologists.

She fed the tool Hawaiian Pidgin English, a heavily stigmatized English-based creole language used by many Hawaii residents, and trained it to recognize spoken phrases. Suzanne Kite at Bard College’s Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI describes herself as one of the first American Indian artists to use machine learning in art. She spent three months last year recording all of her dreams, then used machine learning to translate the contents into a Lakota women’s geometric language commonly used in beadwork and quiltwork.

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