What is Google’s 1,000 language AI Model?

November 15, 2022

The tech giant Google is currently developing an AI model that supports 1,000 most spoken languages of the world.

What are the AI language models?

AI language models aims to minimise the dependence on human labour for fields such as translation, customer service or computation. They automate manual processes and generate new insights based on the existing data. The deep learning processes of these AI models are used for instantly decoding foreign languages by making use of massive volumes of user data and content on their servers.

About Google’s 1,000 Language AI Model

Google’s 1,000 language AI Model was announced at the AI event that was organized in November 2022. To investigate the potential of this massive project, Google is currently working on an AI language model that can support some 400 languages. This model is said to be the “largest language coverage” among existing speech models.

How is this new language model different from the existing AI models?

Currently, numerous AI language models are deployed for businesses or research. Google’s 1,000 languages initiative seeks to improve these models as a whole for diverse use cases. It aims to create one gigantic model for the 1,000 commonly used languages across the globe. It covers widely used as well as rarely used languages, enabling them to co-exist, interact and grow together.

Other AI language models

OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research firm, developed GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) set of models named Davinci, Curie, Babbage, and Ada to generate natural text responses and perform tasks such as classification, simple summaries, address correction, answering questions etc.
Meta is developing an AI-based language translation. The company claims that its open-source M2M-100 model is said to be the first multilingual translation model that does not rely on English as the default language when it translates directly between 100 languages.
The Facebook-parent company is also focusing on AI-based translation for not just text but also oral languages like Hokkien. Google is also currently collecting data for languages that are widely spoken but do not have online presence.

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