 Welcome back to the AI for good global summits here in Geneva. It's day two and I'm now joined by Dava out of land She used to work on this amazing MPR radio program in the US Of course, you can still get everywhere, but she has a lot of other exciting projects is working on now You're doing a seminar here workshop. Take it away. Thank you so much Yes, our startup is called I vow and it stands for voices of wisdom and a vow to help the future generation of stories to be culturally conscious We're here with the team of AI pioneering storytellers and experts to really talk about whether storytelling can help build Capacity in AI systems. So as you know, many AI systems are struggling with different cultural contexts and can stories help machines build cultural IQ You mentioned Persian because I think you have a brand new background so explain that yes, absolutely So one of the things we're going to be demonstrating is we've taken an ancient text the Shahnameh written by 10th century poet Ferdowsi We fed it to current AI models and from that understood where the weaknesses are in the AI model when it comes to certain cultural Context developed our own model as a way to prove that different ethnic groups should really step up to the plate find digitized Ancient text and help generate and bring more cultural IQ and capacity to current AI models Who's participating in your workshop? Who's coming along to take part in this? Absolutely. So we have storytellers from Tonga and Fiji who've come here We have an AI scientist from Mexico City who has designed a computer that generates text from the Aztec folklore We also have Victor Yarlit who is from the Crow Native American tribe of Montana and he has proven that the MIT Genesis story system can understand his Crow culture just by feeding it 100 pieces of data So I think you're trying to get across that AI is great but it's socially and culturally inept? Well exactly but also we're all building AI solutions it's the biggest market right now whether it's chat spots or internet of things But imagine if those future AI solutions that were built were more authentic and culturally relevant to you So that if you had a health app that was telling you about how to monitor your health It actually would be more relevant to your cultural history or to your cultural context And I think that AI systems need to become a two-way street They have to be culturally relevant. This is really prevalent in the United States The growing population are Hispanic Americans, largest demographic And Google and Nielsen have done surveys that show that Hispanic Americans will buy products that culturally speak to them I feel like this is also something that is very big in terms of the global emerging markets If more companies want to reach them, if they have more AI that's culturally sensitive and culturally conscious It's just going to make for better products What I found interesting is that you're actually doing this as a for profit app Yes You're not looking for NGO funding or OGN funding No absolutely because I think the next step like the last year many in the AI community for good reason Have been focusing on ethics and privacy issues And I think this year 2019-2020 is going to emerge when we're going to say Okay, how are we going to now find solutions that are going to invite the global public to be part of this narrative And not scared of AI because many in the media hype AI about it's going to take over your jobs Robots are going to do this and that But what if robots are going to help share your cultural story What if you could opt in to allow machines of the future to know you better Finally we're in day two now What would be your hope at the end of this week that you would have achieved I think it's really just to make sure that more people are aware that global narratives need to be included in AI systems But for the purpose of creating really cool products that speak to the global public We're here at a United Nations event And so it's really important for government agencies to also think about creating cultural engines That capture the narrative of their nations Okay, well that was Dava Arland Thank you very much for your time Absolutely, thank you