Next was an amazing pair of talks by @armedchile (an ingenious method for combining high and low resource language data to build #LLMs that significantly improves translation performance) and Orevaoghene Ahia (subword tokenization effects on LLM costs/performance in different languages) at #Indaba2023. I'll be thinking about both talks for a long time - they have profound implications for the design of #GenerativeAI tech and business models. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVi9qB_1Ccw (3/11) #AI

Last was a nice talk by Hugo Larochelle on universal representation transformers at #Indaba2023. The idea here is intriguing - assemble a number of pre-trained transformer models and build a transformer on top of them to learn the right transformer to use depending on the query https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tc05RritQw (10/10) #AI

Next was an interesting panel with reflections from African #AI communities at #Indaba2023. The development of so many specific communities across the continent was great to see, and makes me excited to see the further work coming out of these groups in the coming years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvJHR4iBFkA (4/10) #Africa

Next was an opening talk by Kofi Dadzie and an engaging panel on building and growing #AI #startups in #Africa at #Indaba2023 with @alienelf, Hatem Haddad, Darlington Akogo, and Fatima Tambajang. Impressive entrepreneurs like these who have developed cutting edge tech companies on the continent demonstrates how much potential is waiting to be unleashed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x0yjjLql84 (2/10)

First was a nice talk by Boago Okgetheng on an #NLP system for Setswana and a panel on the startup journey of Amathambo AI with Ian Omung'a, Kira Düsterwald, and Sicelukwanda Zwane at #Indaba2023. This impressive, inspiring work to learn about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBOO7iJPADA (2/11) #startups

Next was a nice group of short talks on various startups/projects at #Indaba2023. I particularly liked the talks by Asmelash Teka Hadgu and Paul Azunre with targeted #NLP approaches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21GuEZ8EoY (6/11) #startups #Africa

Next was an engaging panel on the opportunities and challenges for underrepresented groups in tech at #Indaba2023 with Bridget Boakye, Tyna Eloundou, Elizabeth Ndunge Benson, and Ulrich Paquet. I liked the mix of practitioners and academics as well as the unique perspectives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD6vKZf8fgg (4/11)

First was a fantastic talk by @timnitGebru on the strong connections between the "AGI" discussion and eugenics, current #AI harms, and why centering our goals and traditionally underserved groups in tech development and research is essential at #Indaba2023. As always, Gebru is a must watch, highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cm_FvHmtVI (2/11) #AIEthics