International conference · Macau edition
Artificial intelligence in the world’s many languages
AI Beyond English超越英语的人工智能IA para além do inglês
A two-day international conference on how artificial intelligence can be developed to include languages other than English, so that it reflects and encourages the many ways of thinking, cultural practices and histories found around the world.
- 中文
- 粵語
- Português
- العربية
- Kiswahili
- Oʻzbekcha
- Қазақша
- ไทย
- ខ្មែរ
- Tiếng Việt
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bahasa Melayu
- English
The idea
Most people live, work and think in a language other than English.
Around the world, researchers and companies are building artificial intelligence for those languages. Sabiá in Brazil, BharatGen in India, KazLLM in Kazakhstan, SEA-LION in Singapore and InkubaLM in South Africa are a few of the models already built. Each one carries something of the culture and history of the people it is made for.
AI Beyond English brings this work together for two days. Researchers present and compare what they have built, and companies show how it is being used.
The first edition is in Macau, a meeting point between China and the Portuguese-speaking world for more than four centuries, where Chinese and Portuguese are both official languages.
Programme
Two days in Macau
The academic conference
Speakers are being invited from universities including the University of Cambridge, Harvard University and the University of São Paulo, and from Greater China, the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and South East Asia. Papers from the day will be published openly.
- Human culture: tourism, communication and decision-making
- Creating or adapting foundational models to reflect society
- Conditions particular to a society that AI models have yet to represent well
More themes will be added as the programme takes shape.
AI in industry
Day two looks at how artificial intelligence is being applied in industry in places where languages other than English dominate, such as China.
- Robotics
- Health and the life sciences
- Energy
- Hospitality and tourism
- Healthy ageing
Regions
Where speakers are being invited from
Eighteen countries and regions so far, each listed with a language spoken there.
Greater China
- Mainland China 中文
- Macau 中文 · Português
- Hong Kong 粵語
South East Asia
- Thailand ไทย
- Cambodia ខ្មែរ
- Vietnam Tiếng Việt
- Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia
- Malaysia Bahasa Melayu
- Brunei Bahasa Melayu
Middle East
- United Arab Emirates العربية
- Qatar العربية
- Saudi Arabia العربية
Central Asia
- Uzbekistan Oʻzbekcha
- Kazakhstan Қазақша
Africa
- Kenya Kiswahili
Europe and the Americas
- United Kingdom English
- United States English
- Brazil Português
Organisers
A foundation in London and a faculty in Macau
- UK Asia Grant Foundation
- An educational foundation in London that brings people from Britain and from across Asia together through conferences, teaching and open publishing.Visit the UK Asia Grant Foundation website →
- Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Macau University of Science and Technology
- The host faculty in Macau. Students from the university also attend the foundation’s summer school at Churchill College, Cambridge.
Taking part
Universities, researchers, companies and public bodies who would like to speak, attend or support the conference are welcome to write to the organisers.
info@ukag.org
What comes next
Speakers are being invited now. The programme and dates will be published on this website as they are confirmed.