AI chatbots struggle to function beyond English: ‘They know a lot … but they miss the culture’

The world’s leading AI chatbots can now generate everything from emails to research papers—in English. But shift to a different language, and AI’s performance begins to slip.

Most large language models are “a bit like a Fulbright scholar who is interested in Asia as their area of study,” said Kalika Bali, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research India at the Fortune Brainstorm AI Singapore conference on Wednesday. “They know a lot about the [subject], but they miss the culture.