Algorithms · June 2022Gaffe level: Typo
DALL-E Mini Drew Women in Saris From Blank Prompts
Feed DALL-E Mini a blank prompt and it kept generating images of women in saris, over and over, and nobody could explain why. Somewhere in the training data, a meme became a ghost.
Source: Gizmodo
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice