Using AI to Learn Pidgin English A Fun Tech Experiment
Title: Using AI to Learn Pidgin English: A Fun Tech Experiment. 19 Banks Meet New Capital Requirements Ahead Of March 31 Deadline Bruno Mars announces 2026 stadium tour with Chicago stop HANYEL The language uniting Nigeria is pidgin English. It is our everyday way of talking to each other, Lagos traffic, village meetings, Nollywood scripts, street banters. However, the peculiar thing is that in this case, the majority of AI assistants were programmed to sound like an American professor. They are familiar with Shakespeare and are not in a position to know how far. I was going to conduct an experiment. Would I teach AI how to speak good Nigerian Pidgin? Not the stereotyped my friend ballet, but pure and natural and street-ready Pidgin, which in Oyingbo market would earn you a laugh. What I learned surprised me. I began using ChatGPT since it is the most common AI used by Nigerians. I told it in no uncertain terms, "Talk to me in Nigerian Pidgin. What came back was awkward. It was l...