OK, to be clear, I don't believe that the author's father's tumour was cured by the traditional herbal concoction he was taking. My feeling is that, if this medicine really cured cancer, we'd know. But I do take the author's point that AI is missing out when it doesn't include the wide range of human languages - and therefore, human experiences - that exist. My view is essentially this, as stated by Deepak Varuvel Dennison: "I have my doubts about whether Indigenous knowledge truly works as claimed in every case. Especially when influencers and politicians invoke it superficially for likes, views or to exploit identity politics, generating misinformation without sincere enquiry. However, I'm equally wary of letting it disappear." Related: A team of African researchers has unveiled African Next Voices, the largest known AI-ready dataset for African languages.
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