Not Uyoga Not Translation
As the hottest summer ever experienced by homo sapiens approached its end at the Meta headquarters in California, the world’s ninth-largest corporation announced a new achievement for cyber sapiens: the introduction of SeamlessM4T — "the first all-in-one multimodal and multilingual AI translation model that allows people to communicate effortlessly through speech and text across different languages.”
The Week in Review
The Week in Review: July 21, 2023
If you recently joined Threads, you might have noticed a major missing feature in the app’s early days: translation. If you happened across a...
Technology
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.
Business
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.
Business
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?
Localization
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.”
Technology
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...
Culture
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...
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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...