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Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by asmala »

enriquto wrote: post #68

I wonder if there is a rationale for this particularly strange selection of languages. They propose, for example, Irish (Gaelic), which is the native language of about 80.000 european citizens and is understood by about a million. Yet they do not propose Catalan, which is the native language of 4.1 million and understood by about ten million. As a staunch partisan for the unity of the EU, and native Catalan speaker,…

I think they're just going with the list of official EU languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...). That list does not, unfortunately, include Catalan, even though the Spanish government pushed for adding it to the list (along with Galician and Basque).

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by unglaublich »

tekkk wrote: post #58

Well.. it is nice, I guess, but really dumbed down version in my opinion to actually be of practical use. Sure it's great publicity for Reaktor and Finland and whatnot, but I'm dubious of its actual benefits. Teaching basic statistics would be much more useful than "AI", but I guess it lacks the hype factor so marketing-wise it wouldn't just be as cool. It's as if there wasn't enough of snake oil salesman promoting t…

The hype factor has always been used to teach people things that they otherwise find boring. So, if that is what is need to get people on board of the AI.., ahem, statistics train, then it's fine with me.

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by enriquto »

MartianSquirrel wrote: post #70
enriquto wrote: post #68

I wonder if there is a rationale for this particularly strange selection of languages. They propose, for example, Irish (Gaelic), which is the native language of about 80.000 european citizens and is understood by about a million. Yet they do not propose Catalan, which is the native language of 4.1 million and understood by about ten million. As a staunch partisan for the unity of the EU, and native Catalan speaker,…

I could be mistaken, but it seems like they translated it in EU countries official languages, which is why Irish is present but not Catalan.

Yes, it seems to be this. I hope this is a default list of languages, and more languages may be added if requested.

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by elliekelly »

enriquto wrote: post #68

I wonder if there is a rationale for this particularly strange selection of languages. They propose, for example, Irish (Gaelic), which is the native language of about 80.000 european citizens and is understood by about a million. Yet they do not propose Catalan, which is the native language of 4.1 million and understood by about ten million. As a staunch partisan for the unity of the EU, and native Catalan speaker,…

The press release[1] has contact information for several people involved with the project. Perhaps you could offer to translate the course into Catalan. It doesn't hurt to ask. If you feel really strongly it should be offered in your native language you could also just do the entire translation and then contact them. Once you've put in all the effort it will be much harder for them to say thanks but no thanks.

[1] https://eu2019.fi/en/article/-/asset_publisher/suomen-eu-puh...

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by enriquto »

This title has been misleadingly edited, removing a crucial word.

In the linked article, it states that the course will be available "in all official EU languages", which is indeed the case. The word "official" has been removed from the title, thus giving a very different indication of the actual set of languages in question.

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by sethx »

pasiaj wrote: post #22

Elements of AI was created as a collaboration by University of Helsinki, the Finnish government and Reactor Innovations, a software consultancy. It was well received by the Finnish general populace. The Finnish government currently acts as the EU presidency, and decided to open access to all Europeans.

Reaktor <3 !

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by PedroBatista »

enriquto wrote: post #68

I wonder if there is a rationale for this particularly strange selection of languages. They propose, for example, Irish (Gaelic), which is the native language of about 80.000 european citizens and is understood by about a million. Yet they do not propose Catalan, which is the native language of 4.1 million and understood by about ten million. As a staunch partisan for the unity of the EU, and native Catalan speaker,…

If they followed your rationale, they would need to translate the contents to around 130 languages.

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by enriquto »

PedroBatista wrote: post #77
enriquto wrote: post #68

I wonder if there is a rationale for this particularly strange selection of languages. They propose, for example, Irish (Gaelic), which is the native language of about 80.000 european citizens and is understood by about a million. Yet they do not propose Catalan, which is the native language of 4.1 million and understood by about ten million. As a staunch partisan for the unity of the EU, and native Catalan speaker,…

If they followed your rationale, they would need to translate the contents to around 130 languages.

Well, they could use automatic IA-based translation, for that! :)

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by hombre_fatal »

The comments here are surprisingly negative. So many wet blankets, from people saying the offering sucks to people mistakenly complaining about it being EU-only to someone saying it empowers just white europe.

I wonder how many people criticizing it even planned on trying this completely-free course.

I think we really need to work on pulling the plug on this fetishization of contrarianism as a community.

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by PedroBatista »

enriquto wrote: post #78
PedroBatista wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they followed your rationale, they would need to translate the contents to around 130 languages.

Well, they could use automatic IA-based translation, for that! :)

That would expose how shitty IA-based translation is and would derail their AI hype-train. :)
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