The Digital Tech Revolution Will Benefit Low Resource Languages

There's been some interesting work in machine translation. Google has dumped loads of sentences into the same corpus from all different languages without worrying about what language they're from. And then there's been another project where you can train on English Korean and then training on English Japanese. There are some bootstrappy ways to help low resource languages. Of course, my concern is that the digital tech revolution will benefit a lot of people, but it won't benefit everyone equally. You need material, they ain't got material for a language in the world. That's the main thing that's going to happen.