Chatbots · June 2024Gaffe level: Typo
The AI Landlords Are
British renters found their landlords outsourcing tenant chats and maintenance requests to AI chatbots that dispensed canned, clueless replies. Nothing says we value your tenancy like a robot that cannot find your leak.
Source: Dazed
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