Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute has a new director, and she’s a well-respected linguist who comes to the university after working for Meta as the lead responsible AI ...

Only a fraction of the 7,000 to 8,000 languages spoken around the world benefit from modern language technologies like voice-to-text transcription, automatic captioning, instantaneous translation and ...

From text-generating ChatGPT to voice-activated Siri, artificial intelligence-powered tools are designed to aid our everyday life -- as long as you speak a language they support. These technologies ...

New York City is embracing the digital age in its quest to eliminate language barriers in the Big Apple by using translation apps for enhanced communication. Mayor Eric Adams issued a directive to ...

Language technology has grown fast, but it still feels frustrating at times. Maybe your virtual assistant misunderstands commands, or translation tools miss the tone of a sentence. These gaps can ...

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Mona Diab understands what is at stake. As a research scientist at two of the largest technology companies on the planet, Diab saw the impact innovations had as they spread across the globe. And with ...

Google announced a breakthrough technology called CALM that speeds up large language models (like GPT-3 and LaMDA) without compromising performance levels. Larger Training Data Is Better But Comes ...

Accessibility is a basic human right. The World Health Organization reports that over one billion people worldwide have some form of disability, yet only one in ten of them have access to assistive ...

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Hundreds of scientists around the world are working together to understand one of the most powerful emerging technologies before it’s too late. On May 18, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced an ...