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Jun 2019
20m 19s

The Death of a Language

Kyle Polich
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USC students from the CAIS++ student organization have created a variety of novel projects under the mission statement of "artificial intelligence for social good". In this episode, Kyle interviews Zane and Leena about the Endangered Languages Project.

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