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‘Sorry, I didn’t get that’: AI misunderstands some people’s words more than others

By Roberto Rey Agudo, Research Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College

Speaking with an AI bot can be amusing and even helpful – if it understands you. How well AIs do that is a matter of whose speech they’ve been trained on.

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