{"id":9815,"date":"2026-08-18T16:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9815"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:56:51","slug":"arabic-ai-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/08\/18\/arabic-ai-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some interesting content on AI Arabic issues; certainly an area requiring investment of time and research:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mte7h56x4s2s\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreibjx43fgxzeuxqzcx23clkn25jusajpzamuzjgjmb2pd3hlvx3jbq\"><p lang=\"en\">\u201cThis week, it was announced that researchers from the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi developed ArabCulture-Dialogue, the first benchmark to measure AI models\u2019 ability to understand and engage with Arab culture across 13 national dialects.\u201d<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mte7h56x4s2s?ref_src=embed\">2026-08-18T12:23:20.744Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mtejqvasqk24\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreideuq35tsu223nfd3s5vahrtmqyyzy6jum5k6fcym5xcrre5ap35e\"><p lang=\"en\">Following up on an earlier post about Arabic and AI:  &#34;&#8230;  one of the main challenges in AI development is that models are trained almost exclusively on Modern Standard Arabic.&#34; So, what about dialects?  This research unpicks that particular question.<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mtejqvasqk24?ref_src=embed\">2026-08-18T15:27:45.379Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mte7wqgeyk2s\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreicg7njlb7xavc4p4zrjgtvk7xh5ien3zhjdhj34myvix4j4awf67y\"><p lang=\"en\">\u201cThe value of Arabic intellectual property, the development of Arabic-language AI tools and new ways of financing the region\u2019s creative industries are among the subjects at this year\u2019s Congress of Arabic and Creative Industries in Abu Dhabi.\u201d<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mte7wqgeyk2s?ref_src=embed\">2026-08-18T12:32:04.227Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting content on AI Arabic issues; certainly an area requiring investment of time and research:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,71],"tags":[308,85],"class_list":["post-9815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-arabic","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9816,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions\/9816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}