{"id":471166,"date":"2022-07-06T18:57:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/metas-new-ai-takes-us-a-step-closer-to-a-universal-language-translator\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T18:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:57:32","slug":"metas-new-ai-takes-us-a-step-closer-to-a-universal-language-translator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/metas-new-ai-takes-us-a-step-closer-to-a-universal-language-translator\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meta&#8217;s new AI takes us a step closer to a universal language translator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dfd2f68c3f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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all<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMetas_new_AI_takes_us_a_step_closer_to_a_universal_language_translator%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Meta&#8217;s new AI takes us a step closer to a universal language translator&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n                            Meta has taken another step towards creating a universal language translator.<\/p>\n<p>The company has open-sourced an AI model that translates over 200 languages \u2014 many of which aren\u2019t supported by existing systems.<\/p>\n<p>The research is part of a Meta initiative launched earlier this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper neural channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads.tnw\/uploads\/neural-newsletter_header-1.gif\"\/><\/div>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/src=\" https:=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<h2 class=\"channel-cta-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Greetings_humanoids\"><\/span>Greetings, humanoids<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">Subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>letter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe call this project <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ai.facebook.com\/blog\/teaching-ai-to-translate-100s-of-spoken-and-written-languages-in-real-time\/\">No Language Left Behind<\/a>, and the AI modeling techniques we used from NLLB are helping us make high quality translations on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and Instagram for languages spoken by billions of people around the world,\u201d Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>NLLB focuses on lower-resource languages, such as Maori or Maltese. Most people in the world speak these languages, but they lack the training data that AI translations typically require.<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s new model was designed to overcome this challenge.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, the researchers first interviewed speakers of underserved languages to understand their needs. They then developed a novel data mining technique that generates training sentences for<span> low-resource languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Next, they trained their model on a mix of the mined data and human-translated data.<\/p>\n<p>The result is NLLB-200 \u2014 a massive multilingual translation system for 202 languages.<\/p>\n<p>The team assessed the model\u2019s performance on the FLORES-101 dataset, which evaluates translations of low-resource languages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite doubling the number of languages, our final model performs 40% better than the previous state of the art on Flores-101,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/research.facebook.com\/publications\/no-language-left-behind\/\">the study authors wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1389108 js-lazy\" alt=\"SOTA comparison\" width=\"1640\" height=\"923\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\" https:=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison.jpg 1640w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-280x158.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-796x448.jpg 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-1592x896.jpg 1592w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-1200x675.jpg 1200w\"\/><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2022%2F07%2F06%2Fmeta-open-source-200-language-translator-step-to-universal-speech-translator%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: LLB-200 outperformed other state of the art models (SOTA) that cover far fewer languages. Credit: Meta\" data-title=\"Share LLB-200 outperformed other state of the art models (SOTA) that cover far fewer languages. Credit: Meta on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share LLB-200 outperformed other state of the art models (SOTA) that cover far fewer languages. Credit: Meta on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>LLB-200 outperformed other state of the art models (SOTA) that cover far fewer languages. Credit: Meta<\/figcaption><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1389108\" https:=\"\" alt=\"SOTA comparison\" width=\"1640\" height=\"923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison.jpg 1640w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-280x158.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-796x448.jpg 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-1592x896.jpg 1592w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/07\/SOTA-Comparison-1200x675.jpg 1200w\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><span>The techniques have already improved machine translations on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia. Meta has also<\/span> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/#search\/meta\/FMfcgzGpGdnzMxGwNjLPRjbKwsdzdPlZ\">open-sourced all their benchmarks, data scripts, and models<\/a> to support further research.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, could also benefit Meta.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Open-sourced_for_all\"><\/span>Open-sourced for all<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Zuckerberg\u2019s relentless drive for growth has recently run into obstacles. In February, Facebook lost daily users for the first time in its 18-year history.<\/p>\n<p>If Meta can improve the quality of its translations, that can make its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>s attractive to a broader user base.<\/p>\n<p>Inevitably, the company anticipates the research playing a big role in the metaverse \u2014 where <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/06\/20\/cto-racism-could-ruin-metaverse-if-tech-doesnt-improve-diversity-now.html\">concerns about inclusion are growing<\/a>. But it can also benefit the business\u2019 existing apps.<\/p>\n<p>Translation issues have long caused problems for Meta. In 2017, Israeli police <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/24\/facebook-palestine-israel-translates-good-morning-attack-them-arrest\">arrested a Palestinian<\/a> after Facebook translated a post saying \u201cgood morning\u201d as \u201cattack them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company has also struggled to monitor misinformation and hate speech <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-languages-insight-idUSKCN1RZ0DW\">in lesser-resourced languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new research could mitigate these risks and improve user experiences. To Meta\u2019s credit, the company has also given rivals a chance to benefit from the work. Open-sourcing the models will also hopefully support speakers of languages that are underserved or under threat.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, what benefits Meta could also benefit humanity. 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