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‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English

By Aditya Joshi, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney

A new study shows large language models find it much harder to understand the nuances of Indian, British and Australian English.

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