Was privileged this morning to give a Keynote at the Southern African Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research UFS. Spoke on AI futures in Africa: opportunities in algorithmic innovation, equitable data ecosystems, & compute access for all. Let's shape the future!

Probably the most detailed & insightful interview I've given on the subject of #NigerianEnglish appearing in the The OED: youtu.be/ry4ZEMWNmyw?si… News Central TV

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Well done Maria Maria Dermentzi

Connected to the #DeepSeek discourse. As Africans (across all 53 countries), we must stop being passive consumers of technology. It's time to develop tech that fits our unique needs, or we risk being left behind in the #AI revolution. 1/n

IrokoBench has been accepted to NAACL 2025. 🌍 Fantastic cross-instutional collaboration led by Masakhane with McGill University Lelapa AI Microsoft Africa Cohere For AI Princeton University and others. Thanks to David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 @ACL2025 who brought us all together, and all our co-authors. 🔥

Our work has been accepted to #ICLR2025 🔥 Huge congrats to Shayne Longpre who championed this effort -- well deserved recognition of this extensive landscape analysis.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 @ACL2025 Atnafu Lambebo 🇪🇹 Jade Abbott Kathleen S. Bonaventure F. P. Dossou Constantine Lignos (✈️ ACL) Dr Ignatius Ezeani Deep Learning Indaba Lacuna Fund DSN - Data Science Nigeria

🚀Researchers in African language technologies! 🚀 Submit your papers to AfricanNLP2025 and make an impact on the future of NLP for Africa. Details below 👇

🤖 On this week's FUTURES Podcast, I speak to computer scientist Neil Lawrence (Neil Lawrence Cambridge University Cambridge Computer Science), who shared his insights on what #machineintelligence can teach us about being #human, the risks of relying on technologies that prioritise efficiency and

Today I will be at the France AI Action Summit ✨. Honored to be here and talking about our work on global first AI that serves languages around the world 🌍, AI sustainabilility 🌿 and multi-objective safety🦺. Let's gooo.

🚀 AI/ML/DS Deadlines 4 Africans – Updated! 🗓️ New deadlines added for: ✅ DLI 2025 ✅ DSA 2025 ✅ ACVSS 2025 ✅ SACAIR 2025 Plan your paper submissions & workshops! 🔗 Website: mldsafrica.co.za 🔗 Contribute: github.com/dsfsi/deadlines 1/n

I created a Python project starter repo for students that helps maintain good code quality while doing research projects: github.com/neubig/starter… I was opinionated and made only one choice for each tool, but there are other options too!

Hi all, see if you are eligible to apply for this Research Software Maintenance Fund from Software Sustainability Institute - go.shr.lc/4iRuRem

Picture this: Africa's data science future being shaped within the halls of Nigeria's first university. That's #DSA2025Ibadan. Have you secured your place at this pivotal gathering? 🔗Registration Now: bit.ly/Register-DSA20…… 🔗Submit Abstracts: bit.ly/DSAabstract

Open source AI FTW. From Meta-FAIR.

📢 I am looking for a postdoc for the next academic year! (Due to the funding source, US persons preferred) Interested in multimodal LLMs and their application to education domains (plus multilinguality, cross-lingual, and low-resource learning)? Contact me here/email if yes!

At the launch of the UNDP Uganda Human Development Report in Uganda, a vital question was raised: “How can people who don't speak English utilize AI and access information and opportunities? UNDP Uganda’s resident representative Nwanne Vwede-Obahor highlighted that "Capitalism

Rest on Ngugi wa Thiong'o

When it comes to text prediction, where does one LM outperform another? If you've ever worked on LM evals, you know this question is a lot more complex than it seems. In our new #acl2025 paper, we developed a method to find fine-grained differences between LMs: 🧵1/9