Facebook AI Earns Award for Multilingual MT Model
On Nov. 10, Facebook won a prestigious award at the Sixth Annual Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) for its multilingual model, which could make...
SambaNova Adds GPT to Services, Expands NLP Capabilities
SambaNova, a Palo Alto-based tech company that specializes in artificial intelligence (AI), announced recently that the company has added the GPT-3 language model to...
Airbnb awards largest contract in language industry
Airbnb announced this morning a suite of new and expanded services, among them a new translation engine to improve guests’ and hosts’ user experience.
The...
Facebook goes “meta,” internet has a field day
Meanwhile, Portuguese-speaking internet users got to have a laugh over the fact that “meta” is the imperative form of a verb with the colloquial meaning “to have intercourse.”
What Can AI Teach us about the Human Brain?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) believe that artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language models may...
VKontakte Sets Sights on English-speaking Audience, Launches NMT
VKontakte, a popular social media network in Russia and other Russian-speaking regions, has recently launched its own neural machine translation (NMT) model for translating...
Facebook linguistic gaps allow hate speech to spread, don’t match demographic realities
Social media giant Facebook is under the microscope yet again recently for purportedly prioritizing growth and profit over the safety of users and marginalized...
Youtube to Add Several New Audio and Caption Features
Google recently announced last week that it will be adding a whole new series of features to Youtube’s closed captioning and subtitles, including a...
Microsoft Translator Now Available in 100+ Languages
The team behind Microsoft’s Azure AI platform recently announced that the company’s machine translation (MT) system, Microsoft Translator, is now capable of translating text...