"Where do I come from? I am South African. I come from the majority world, which is where the majority of the population lives, aka the global south. Particularly, I'm from Africa. There are over a billion people. What's really interesting is it is the youngest population in the world. By 2050, I think a third of the world is going to be African."
"By day, at least for many years, I was an ML engineer. Been doing it for over a decade. I've been putting in machine learning models into production like pre-TensorFlow. I can't even remember. It was like a Stanford library that they had built, trying to ship that to production was one of the most horrifying things. As you know, we've actually had language models since the '80s. We've just been iterating on them and making them bigger and stranger and more powerful."
Jade Abbott is CTO of Lelapa AI, an African language AI startup nearing Series A funding. She co-founded the Masakhane research foundation in 2018 to address lack of language tools for African languages. She worked as an ML engineer for over a decade and has experience deploying models to production before TensorFlow. Language models have existed since the 1980s and have been iteratively scaled. Africa has over a billion people, a very young population, and is projected to represent about one third of the world by 2050. The continent has more than 2,000 languages, many spoken by millions, and high mobile penetration around 82%.
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