Think about ChatGPT. You ask it a question in French, and it answers. Seems okay, right? Except… does it answer in Quebec French or Parisian French? And is it really calibrated for your reality?<\/p>\n
Most of the data used to train AIs comes from the English-speaking Internet. Then they add a bit of French \u2014 but mostly French from France. Why? Because Paris has more web presence than Montreal. It’s like training an AI to understand hockey by mostly showing it soccer videos.<\/p>\n
Result: an AI can understand “je vais bien,” but it doesn’t always get “\u00e7a va-tu bien?” or “c’est-tu correct?” It doesn’t know our expressions, it doesn’t grasp the Quebec context, and it can produce content that sounds weird to us.<\/p>\n
Because making AI in Quebec French isn’t trivial. You need:<\/p>\n
Quality data<\/strong>: texts, conversations, Quebec articles. There aren’t enough online. And it’s a real issue: if all tech speaks mostly English and Parisian French, Quebecers are progressively being digitally marginalized.<\/p>\n Quebec companies are starting to create AIs that are more respectful of our French. Even OpenAI is working on improving its Quebec French (slowly, but working on it). The real game changer? Quebec researchers and companies building their own models.<\/p>\n Want to dig into this? Check out Sherpa<\/a> to test the same question in different languages, or explore Laeka Research<\/a> to read more about local AIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Think about ChatGPT. You ask it a question in French, and it answers. Seems okay, right? Except… does it answer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-in-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLocal expertise<\/strong>: people who know what we mean when we talk the way we talk.
\nCultural pride<\/strong>: saying our language deserves to be properly represented in technology.<\/p>\nWhat we can do<\/h2>\n