"The language barrier can be a huge issue," Kisson Lin, co-founder and chief operating officer for Singaporean AI startup Mindverse AI. "It's not only that you [find] it hard to collaborate, but also hard to bond with each other."
"AI models are built on data...and the region is not well represented in the digital space," says Leslie Teo, lead of the Southeast Asian Languages in One Network (Sea-Lion) project.
AI's performance benchmarks are largely driven by English and Mandarin Chinese, missing nuances even in widely-spoken tongues like Cantonese, Caroline Yap, managing director of AI at Google Cloud.
"It's important to keep humans in the loop," to address the challenges brought by linguistic diversity, Caroline Yap, managing director of AI at Google Cloud.
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