Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...
As far back as 2016, work on AI-based chatbots revealed that they have a disturbing tendency to reflect some of the worst biases of the society that trained them. But as large language models have ...
For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...
A new study shows that large language models like ChatGPT have biases, including stereotypes against African American English speakers. As more research about artificial intelligence explores the ...
A new paper finds that while popular AI models may not be outwardly racist, they are covertly racist when it comes to African American English. Reading time 3 minutes A new paper found that large ...
With each version of large language models like ChatGPT, developers have gotten better at filtering out racist content absorbed through sources like the internet. But researchers have discovered more ...
The model powering ChatGPT and other large language models exhibit a form of "covert racism" against speakers of African American English (AAE), according to a new study published in the journal ...
“Dr. Holt, I need you to come listen to one of my second graders. This is one of my best students, but I’m worried I might be overlooking a speech or language disorder—I’m just not sure,” the teacher ...
So something I've noticed is that when I try to talk to my smart speaker, Alexa doesn't always get what I'm trying to say. And don't get me started on those apps that transcribe interviews. So why am ...