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"Earlier this year I gave a talk about my research at Oxford’s All Souls
College, and worked with a chef to design an accompanying menu.
Thinking about my work in southwest Western Australia, I typed “Boorloo”, the
Nyungar name for the City of Perth.
Autocorrect had other ideas. It replaced it with “Barolo” – which, I thought,
made for a fitting wine choice on the night.
It was an amusing moment, but also a revealing one. The system’s dictionary,
trained largely on mainstream English data, didn’t know what Boorloo was, so it
reached for a more familiar alternative. This seemingly minor miscorrection
offers a glimpse into how language technologies are shaped – including which
words they recognise, and which they overlook."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
