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Olimpiu Pop: Hello, everybody. I'm Olimpiu Pop, an Infoq editor, and I have Jade Abbott to discuss the most critical aspects of LLMS and AI. But without any further ado, Jade, can you please introduce yourself?

Jade Abbott: Yes. Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for having me on this podcast. My name's Jade Abbott. I am the chief technology officer and co-founder of African AI startup Lelapa AI, where we do language technology for African languages.

Olimpiu Pop: Thank you. Your title for the presentation was exciting because I am drawn, like a moth to the flame, to these ecological and ethical aspects, but you had them all together. So, given that you're an entrepreneur and a co-founder, what utopia are you aiming for? What's your mission? What are you trying to solve with Lelapa AI?

Jade Abbott: We could take a small look at the problem we care about. There's also the big, the broader one. I say small, but it's actually very large. And so, for us, it's to enable universal communication. Right now, I think, as a society, communication is our biggest tool and I don't think we've even mastered it even when we're speaking the same language, never mind when we're speaking different languages. And so to really expect the world to move on and collaborate and build towards a better future, we really need to be able to speak in each other's languages and be able to communicate with everyone. And so that's kind of the long-term dream of Lelapa itself is really building the tools and technologies to enable that.

Olimpiu Pop: Thank you. Your title for the presentation was exciting because I am drawn, like a moth to the flame, to these ecological and ethical aspects, but you had them all together. So, given that you're an entrepreneur and a co-founder, what utopia are you aiming for? What's your mission? What are you trying to solve with Lelapa AI?

Jade Abbott: We could take a small look at the problem we care about. There's also the big, the broader one. I say small, but it's actually very large. And so, for us, it's to enable universal communication. Right now, I think, as a society, communication is our biggest tool and I don't think we've even mastered it even when we're speaking the same language, never mind when we're speaking different languages. And so to really expect the world to move on and collaborate and build towards a better future, we really need to be able to speak in each other's languages and be able to communicate with everyone. And so that's kind of the long-term dream of Lelapa itself is really building the tools and technologies to enable that.

Olimpiu Pop: Thank you. Your title for the presentation was exciting because I am drawn, like a moth to the flame, to these ecological and ethical aspects, but you had them all together. So, given that you're an entrepreneur and a co-founder, what utopia are you aiming for? What's your mission? What are you trying to solve with Lelapa AI?

Jade Abbott: We could take a small look at the problem we care about. There's also the big, the broader one. I say small, but it's actually very large. And so, for us, it's to enable universal communication. Right now, I think, as a society, communication is our biggest tool and I don't think we've even mastered it even when we're speaking the same language, never mind when we're speaking different languages. And so to really expect the world to move on and collaborate and build towards a better future, we really need to be able to speak in each other's languages and be able to communicate with everyone. And so that's kind of the long-term dream of Lelapa itself is really building the tools and technologies to enable that.