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New York Post
In just 32 years, humans won’t speak to each other and will instead communicate through a worldwide consciousness instead – using just our brains —...
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Singularity Hub
The world is experiencing a state of unprecedented connectivity thanks to technology. But language remains a barrier. Even though technological devices can quickly and easily connect, humans from different parts of the world often can’t. Translation software may be the solution, but it isn't yet perfect—here's why.
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CNET
ETs may share a kind of 'universal grammar' with us, say leading linguists like Noam Chomsky.
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Engadget
Brooklyn, New York -- Scooby, my friend Gram's dog, isn't exactly inscrutable. As a rambunctious five-year-old pit bull, he usually makes whatever he wants you to know fairly apparent. When Scooby first sees you, he tells you he's happy by wagging his tail and, when he's feeling particularly naughty, jumping up to lick your face. When he wants to play tug-of-war, he grabs a toy and presents it, hi
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XDA Developers
Today, the Google showed how Google Translate benefits from using on-device machine learning technology for offline translations.
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TechCrunch
Amazon has been granted a patent for an audio system that detects the accent of a speaker and changes it to the accent of the listener, perhaps helping eliminate communication barriers in many situations and industries. The patent doesn't mean the company has made it, but there's also no technical reason why it can't do so.
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Reddit
133 votes, 247 comments. We can all agree that languages around the world change with time. Languages gain dominance or get reduced to being …
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The New York Times
Consider the muumuu.
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The Verge
Google Assistant will soon be able to act as your real-life translator in 27 different languages. Google announced today that the voice assistant is getting a new "interpreter mode" that can translate in real time so you can hold conversations with someone who doesn’t share the same tongue. It works, but it’s not magic.
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GOVERNING
From preventing terrorism to spotting restaurant heath violations, a form of artificial intelligence called natural language processing can help connect the dots.
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MIT Technology Review
Listen to this Spanish audio clip. This is how its English translation might sound when put through a traditional automated translation system. Now this is how it sounds when put through Google’s new automated translation system. The results aren’t perfect, but you can sort of hear how Google’s translator was able to retain the voice…
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SIU Carbondale
Interstellar travel may be a thing of the future, but how will people communicate if it actually happens? Southern Illinois University linguistics professor Jeffrey Punske is on the topic, presenting his unique perspective at the European Space Agency’s upcoming Interstellar Travel workshop.
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The Independent
People will communicate 'not only without speaking but without words - through access to each other's thoughts at a conceptual level'
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The Economist
New research suggests that different tongues, regardless of speed, transmit information at roughly the same rate
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Medium
Synced invited Graham Neubig, an Assistant Professor from Carnegie Mellon University to share his thoughts on the universal neural machine translation (NMT) system.
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Social Media Today
Social Media Today
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Pocket
Arch, misspelled, often punctuation-free: writing online has become a distinct genre. But behind the studied carelessness is real linguistic innovation.
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Bloomberg
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Narratively
For decades, Taiwan’s minority Hakka people were banned from teaching their native language. Now an unlikely coalition of aging academics and millennial radio DJs are doing all they can to keep it alive.
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IAI
Is language limited? We might answer the question with reference to a tragi-comic empirical precept: everything is limited, in the end, in one sense or another. We are mortal; we exist in an unknowable and strange universe, of which we understand very little. Each one of us is limited, by finitude, by vantage point; our species is limited, and, we might reasonably assume, will one day become exti
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Ubergizmo
[CES 2016] The entire world is a global village now in the knowledge economy, and you can be sure that while command of the English language as a...
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Aeon
For decades, the idea of a language instinct has dominated linguistics. It is simple, powerful and completely wrong
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Bold
Wearable Translators are the New-Hottest Item for the Monolingual Traveler
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Mother Jones
Alex Tabarrok draws my attention to an article in the New York Times Magazine this weekend. It’s about machine learning in general, but it starts out with this: Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing for a lecture when […]
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The Wall Street Journal
Within 10 years, earpieces will whisper nearly simultaneous translations—and help knit the world closer together.
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Singularity Hub
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Inverse
Language separates us, but it doesn't have to.
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Independent
Their communications evolved as the researchers challenged the machines with tougher tasks
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Venture Beat
Google CEO Sundar Pichai today announced that the company’s speech recognition technology has now achieved a 4.9 percent word error rate. Put another way, Google transcribes every 20th word incorrectly. That’s a big improvement from the 23 percent the company saw in 2013 and the 8 percent it shared…
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The Verge
There is a renaissance happening in the world of artificial intelligence. Using deep learning, researchers are producing systems that can recognize objects, understand spoken language, and even...
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Quartz
Language is not a flawless vehicle for conveying thought and feelings.
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Wired
Lingmo's AI-powered Translate One2One earpiece can translate between English, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German and Chinese
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The Atlantic
When Facebook designed chatbots to negotiate with one another, the bots made up their own way of communicating.
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Pocket
The QWERTY keyboard was once the envy of the world, but not anymore.
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The Economist
Translating technological terms throws up some peculiar challenges
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Stratfor
Don't count on natural language technology to rise to the task of reliable intelligence or other complex tasks.
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IFLScience
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to travel to a foreign country without having to worry about the nuisance of communicating in a different language? In a recent Wa
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Quantified Communications
It's only a matter of time until artificial intelligence is a decision maker in every workplace.
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NowThis World
China & Hong Kong: http://testu.be/1rMbVRb China & Tibet: http://testu.be/1IwXk3N » Subscribe to NowThis World: http://go.nowth.is/World_Subscribe Since 1949...
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The Verge
The Google Pixel event has wrapped and we got a good look at a bunch of new hardware lineup this year: the second generation of Pixel smartphones, new Google...
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Tom Scott
The International Phonetic Alphabet: one sound for each symbol, and one symbol for each sound. Except for the sounds we can't make. Pull down the description...
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Telus International
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Slator
Interview with XTM International’s Rafał Jaworski on how interlanguage vector space impacts cost, delivery time, accuracy for linguists, LSPs
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The Economist
The right and wrong targets in a linguistic struggle | Culture
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Wired
A study analyzing patterns in online comments found that liberals and conservatives use different words to express similar ideas.
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Wired
The theory underlying network science predates the internet. But in 2020, it became essential to understanding our interconnected world.
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Neural
A trio of researchers from the Google Brain team recently unveiled the next big thing in AI language models: a massive one trillion-parameter transformer system.
The next biggest model out there, as far as we’re aware, is OpenAI’s GPT-3, wh
The next biggest model out there, as far as we’re aware, is OpenAI’s GPT-3, wh
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Venture Beat
AI language models have surpassed human performance on a popular benchmark. But what does that really mean?
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CBS News
The study found that around half of the world's 7,000 documented languages are endangered.
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The Economist
Whether and how to resist them is a tough question | Culture
