Meta announces plan to roll out AI services in Swahili and Kikuyu
Kenyans will soon enjoy Artificial Intelligence (AI) services in Swahili and Kikuyu after Meta, Facebook's parent company, announced plans to advance its technology across the globe
Kenyans will soon enjoy Artificial Intelligence (AI) services in Swahili and Kikuyu after Meta, Facebook’s parent company, announced plans to advance its technology across the globe.
In a statement dated September 24, Meta revealed that it was working on an AI that would offer responses to users interested in farming in Swahili and Kikuyu.
As detailed in the plan, the AI platform, Llama, will mostly benefit farmers who seek knowledge on matters of environment and agriculture advisories.
“Digital Green’s Farmer Chat project aims to develop a multilingual AI chatbot that provides customized, on-demand agricultural advisory services to small-scale farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Meta noted in its statement.
The move is aimed at helping small-scale farmers get information that can boost their produce.
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“Llama will be fine-tuned on a vast repository of agricultural data to adapt the model to the specific needs and contexts of different regions,” read the statement in part.
“Llama’s conversational capabilities will then be used to provide comprehensive and practical responses in a variety of languages including Hindi, Swahili, and Kikuyu.
AI is one of the emerging technological advancements in the world today as is aimed at making life easier for human beings across various sectors such as education, health and agriculture.
The most common AI platforms that have gained traction in Kenya in recent years include Chat GPT and Google’s chatbot Gemini.
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