Big Tech Won’t Revitalize Indigenous Languages w/ Keoni Mahelona
Tech Won't Save Us
00:00
The Importance of Good Enough
The implications of it is massive, right? So you think about like the ability to transcribe any audio that's being streamed or put or placed on the internet. OpenAI has a threshold whereby if whisper performs better than a 50% word error rate for language, they will make that language available through their API. Really getting it wrong half the time is suitable enough for you for a product. If they don't do it right, they will harm our languages more. That's just obvious.
Play episode from 34:54
Transcript
