Source: REUTERS

Much like people after COVID, AI is unable to pick up on social cues. Specifically, social cues and cultural contexts of non-Western societies when using it to translate another language.

Say you host someone at your house and ask them if they want chai, and then they (for whatever strange reason) say they don’t want any, you won’t just leave it at that, right? You’d ask if they want anything else. Probably tell them not to do takkalluf (formality) and just accept your hospitality, which is usually a decent move.

But according to research released earlier this month, the AI would simply leave it at that. This research was done on the Iranian tradition of respect and hospitality: ‘ta’arof’, but you can imagine that if it can’t do one culture, it probably can’t do others e

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