Massively Multilingual Translation: Machine Learning Model Trained to Translate 1,000 Languages
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Massively Multilingual Translation: Machine Learning Model Trained to Translate 1,000 Languages

Recent work showed that models for multilingual machine translation can increase the number of languages they translate by scraping the web for pairs of equivalent sentences in different languages. A new study radically expanded the language repertoire through training on untranslated web text.

November 2, 20223 min read
Massively Multilingual Translation: Machine Learning Model Trained to Translate 1,000 Languages
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Massively Multilingual Translation: Machine Learning Model Trained to Translate 1,000 Languages

Recent work showed that models for multilingual machine translation can increase the number of languages they translate by scraping the web for pairs of equivalent sentences in different languages. A new study radically expanded the language repertoire through training on untranslated web text.

November 2, 20223 min read
Generating Investment: Generative AI Startups Raise Hundreds of Millions in Funding
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Generating Investment: Generative AI Startups Raise Hundreds of Millions in Funding

The generative gold rush is on. Venture capitalists are betting hundreds of millions of dollars on startups that use AI to generate images, text, and more, Wired reported.

November 2, 20222 min read
Generating Investment: Generative AI Startups Raise Hundreds of Millions in Funding
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Generating Investment: Generative AI Startups Raise Hundreds of Millions in Funding

The generative gold rush is on. Venture capitalists are betting hundreds of millions of dollars on startups that use AI to generate images, text, and more, Wired reported.

November 2, 20222 min read
The Black Box Awakens: Confronting the Fear of Self-Aware AI in 2022
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The Black Box Awakens: Confronting the Fear of Self-Aware AI in 2022

AI researchers are starting to see ghosts in their machines. Are they hallucinations, or does a dawning consciousness haunt the trained weights?

October 26, 20222 min read
The Black Box Awakens: Confronting the Fear of Self-Aware AI in 2022
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The Black Box Awakens: Confronting the Fear of Self-Aware AI in 2022

AI researchers are starting to see ghosts in their machines. Are they hallucinations, or does a dawning consciousness haunt the trained weights?

October 26, 20222 min read
The Net Speaks in Many Tongues: NLP Model Translates 200 Different Languages
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The Net Speaks in Many Tongues: NLP Model Translates 200 Different Languages

Sentence pairs that have equivalent meanings in different languages — typically used to train machine translation systems — have been available in sufficient quantities for only around 100 languages. New work doubled that number and produced a more capable model.

October 19, 20224 min read
The Net Speaks in Many Tongues: NLP Model Translates 200 Different Languages
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The Net Speaks in Many Tongues: NLP Model Translates 200 Different Languages

Sentence pairs that have equivalent meanings in different languages — typically used to train machine translation systems — have been available in sufficient quantities for only around 100 languages. New work doubled that number and produced a more capable model.

October 19, 20224 min read
All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast
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All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast

For the debut episode of a new podcast series, Play.ht synthesized a 19-minute interview between the rock-star podcaster and late Apple CEO.

October 19, 20221 min read
All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast
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All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast

For the debut episode of a new podcast series, Play.ht synthesized a 19-minute interview between the rock-star podcaster and late Apple CEO.

October 19, 20221 min read
Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text
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Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text

Only a week ago, researchers unveiled a system that generates a few seconds of video based on a text prompt. New work enables a text-to-video system to produce an entire visual narrative from several sentences of text.

October 12, 20223 min read
Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text
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Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text

Only a week ago, researchers unveiled a system that generates a few seconds of video based on a text prompt. New work enables a text-to-video system to produce an entire visual narrative from several sentences of text.

October 12, 20223 min read
Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions
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Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions

A new method enables robots to respond helpfully to verbal commands by pairing a natural language model with a repertoire of existing skills.

September 28, 20222 min read
Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions
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Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions

A new method enables robots to respond helpfully to verbal commands by pairing a natural language model with a repertoire of existing skills.

September 28, 20222 min read
Chipmaker Boosts AI as a Service: Nvidia Launches Cloud Service for NLP Models
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Chipmaker Boosts AI as a Service: Nvidia Launches Cloud Service for NLP Models

Nvidia, known for chips designed to process AI systems, is providing access to large language models. Nvidia announced early access to NeMo LLM and BioNeMo, cloud-computing services that enable developers to generate text and biological sequences respectively.

September 28, 20222 min read

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