Digital Labor: Project Karya
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Microsoft researchers discuss the challenges and opportunities of making AI more inclusive and impactful for everyone—from data that represents a broader range of communities and cultures to novel use cases for AI that are globally relevant.
Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali
| Kalika Bali と Gretchen Huizinga
The new series “Ideas” debuts with guest Kalika Bali. The speech and language tech researcher talks sci-fi and its impact on her career, the design thinking philosophy behind her research, and the “outrageous idea” she had to work with low-resource…
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Village by village, creating the building blocks for AI tools
Indian social impact organization, Karya, uses Microsoft AI to provide their employees with educational tools to earn and learn: https://msft.it/6044c3no2
In a TIME cover story, Kalika Bali, linguist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, spoke to Billy Perrigo about the importance of designing AI technology without language barriers. Learn about our innovative work on ethical data collection with Karya.
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Microsoft Research India is creating tools to help preserve fast disappearing languages
In 2010, Bo, a language of the Andaman Islands that is at least 65,000 years old became extinct when the only person who spoke this pre-Neolithic tongue died. This isn’t an isolated case. Every two weeks, a language is lost…
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Microsoft Research project helps languages survive — and thrive
A woman named Boa Sr was the last link to a 65,000-year-old pre-Neolithic culture on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. When she died in 2010, the Bo language died, too, becoming extinct. If that sounds like an isolated…
Podcast: Enabling Rural Communities to Participate in Crowdsourcing, with Dr. Vivek Seshadri
On this podcast, Vivek talks about what motivated him to focus on research that can help under-served communities, and in particular, about Project Karya, a new platform to provide digital work to rural communities. The word “Karya” literally means “work”…