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Martin Benjamin is the Pirate Professor, running a lab (http://kamu.si/labs) and working with the African Union to develop language technology that flies in the face of today's computer science orthodoxy. In particular, the Pirate Professor believes that we CAN produce top-flight technologies for the billions of people who speak languages that are currently outside of corporate or research interests, but we CANNOT succeed by pursuing the current trends that dominate research and industry today. Some of the videos on this channel delve into hard-core nerdy computational linguistics themes, but you never know where else the boat might sail An article he wrote in Multilingual magazine on AI and translation has gone viral for a reason: http://kamu.si/uyoga. His analysis of Google Translate is also widely popular: http://teachyoubackwards.com Dr. Benjamin earned a PhD in Anthropology with distinction from Yale, with a dissertation that you can read at http://kamu.si/development-consumers

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