Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.

As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models that drive services like ChatGPT. A Princeton postdoc and a new course he devised is focused on how to change that.

Happy Buzaaba’s research as a data engineer is centered on introducing more African languages into LLMs. There are over 7,000 languages in the world today, he said, and around…