Google plans giant AI language model supporting world’s 1,000 most spoken languages
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#65CKG)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a single AI language model that supports the world's 1,000 most spoken languages." As a first step towards this goal, the company is unveiling an AI model trained on over 400 languages, which it describes as the largest language coverage seen in a speech model today."
Language and AI have arguably always been at the heart of Google's products, but recent advances in machine learning - particularly the development of powerful, multi-functional large language models" or LLMs - have placed new emphasis on these domains.
Google has already begun integrating these language models into products like Google Search, while fending off criticism about the systems' functionality. Language...