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  • Treatment of Māori language in language modelling

    Treatment of Māori language in language modelling

    This is my contribution as a critical Indigenous Researcher to the Nature Journal’s article “Increasing the presence of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) researchers in computational science” regarding language revitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, along with many other international voices. The Māori language was banned by native schools and other government led assimilation practices in…

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  • X (Formerly Twitter) is allowing 3rd parties to train AI on its data starting Nov 15

    X (Formerly Twitter) is allowing 3rd parties to train AI on its data starting Nov 15

    Earlier this week X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. Thanks to TechCrunch who first published the details. If you have already locked down your Twitter Privacy, there appears no change. This is a timely reminder that your posts…

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  • Demise of the io domain name

    Demise of the io domain name

    The dot io domain name is a common General Top Level Domain Name (GTLD) for many tech companies, but also for some Māori groups in part for the tech abbreviation for input/output but also as it is the name of a disputed Māori deity called Io. The dot io domain is assigned to a country…

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  • Māori and Iwi investments in multiple data centres in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Māori and Iwi investments in multiple data centres in Aotearoa New Zealand

    In the past month, we saw for the first time, a major Iwi, Ngāti Toa announce their investment into one of New Zealand’s many geographically located data centres, while also a Trans-Tasman Indigenous regional edge datacentre provider Gambarra Kaha announced that they have expanded operations to New Zealand with a sole Māori Director. Both announcements…

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