Google building a 1000-language AI model to beat ChatGPT

Google has shared extra details about the Universal Speech Model (USM), a system the corporate describes as a “critical first step” in realising its objectives, which is now transferring nearer towards its aim of constructing an AI language mannequin that helps 1,000 totally different languages to beat ChatGPT.

In November final yr, the corporate introduced its plans to create a language mannequin supporting 1,000 of the world’s most-spoken languages whereas additionally revealing its USM mannequin.

The tech big describes USM as a household of state-of-the-art speech fashions with 2 billion parameters skilled on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences of textual content, spanning 300+ languages.

“USM, which is for use in YouTube (e.g., for closed captions), can perform automatic speech recognition (ASR) not only on widely spoken languages like English and Mandarin, but also on under-resourced languages like Amharic, Cebuano, Assamese, and Azerbaijani to name a few,” Google mentioned in a blogpost.

Google at present claims that USM helps over 100 languages and can function the “foundation” for a a lot bigger system.

Meanwhile, Google is anticipated to introduce a number of AI options for its merchandise within the close to future, and amongst them, Gboard for Android is working to combine the Imagen text-to-image generator.

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