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Meta gives researchers full access to its large language model, OPT-175B
Unlike many other large language models, OPT-175B will be available for free to all researchers or institutions that request access. The company notes that this effort is an attempt to “democratize” large language models, which will allow for further research into the models’ potential benefits — and dangers — to society.
Meta announces new real-time translation projects
The ambitious aim is to create real-time translation technologies that include everyone in the world by teaching AI to translate hundreds of spoken and written languages.
How will Meta manage its multilingual experience?
For a product designed to unite the world in work and play, how will Meta handle localization and intercultural interactions? MultiLingual has covered the benefits and pitfalls of social media localization extensively. How much more involved will the translation of an entire virtual platform be?
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.”
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...
Social media giant Facebook is under the microscope yet again recently for purportedly prioritizing growth and profit over the safety of users and marginalized...
Global Readiness Forum
What’s that you say? You haven’t heard of the Global Readiness Forum? Don’t worry. Neither had we, which is why we had no choice...
Open World E07 Ft. Kate Edwards – LocFact #TheSims
Alexis: Hi, everyone. Welcome to another LocFact.
Loretta: Hi, guys. For today's LocFact, we will be talking about a game that has sold enough copies...
WhatsApp Developing Automatic Transcription Feature
WhatsApp is currently working on developing an in-app speech recognition and automatic transcription system for the iOS app’s voice message feature, according to WhatsApp...
WhatsApp Spanish Content Moderators Claim Unfair Payment
In an internal letter to the leadership of WhatsApp, Facebook, and Accenture, more than 100 Spanish-language moderators and customer service representatives for WhatsApp alleged...
Developing More Accessible Speech Recognition Systems
Researchers at Facebook have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that doesn’t need transcribed audio data to recognize speech — this means that the...
Weekly Shorts | February 19, 2021
Facebook fixes translation error that called farmers "peasants"
Facebook has removed its translation error from a recent covid-19 post on California governor Gavin Newsom's page,...
