Thu 03 November 2022:
Tech giant Google announced on Wednesday that it plans to develop artificial intelligence using the world’s 1,000 most spoken languages.
Data is critical to AI advancements, and Google and its big tech rivals want to use it to help make products work better and reach the widest potential audience.
“Imagine a new internet user in Africa speaking Wolof… using their phone to ask where is the nearest pharmacy,” said Johan Schalkwyk, a researcher at Google.
Such situations “we take for granted,” Schalkwyk told reporters, adding that languages were “not available to everyone in the world.”
According to Schalkwyk, there are more than 7,000 languages globally.
However, Google only provides translations for about 130 of these.
The search engine giant intends to broaden this significantly, mining data in new languages not only from text on the internet, but also from videos, photos, and audio.
The group is also searching for audio clips for languages that may not have much written information.
As the study progresses, which is expected to take several years, Google intends to incorporate its findings into its products, including YouTube and Google Translate.
Facebook parent Meta unveiled a similar goal earlier this year dubbed No Language Left Behind, which aims to establish translation systems for hundreds of foreign languages.
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