These language models have already been integrated into Google Search, despite criticism about their functionality
Earlier this year, the company announced that Google Play Games would come to PCs as a beta experience for a limited number of players
San Francisco, NFAPost: Tech giant Google has announced an ambitious new project to build a single AI language model that supports the world’s 1,000 most spoken languages.
According to The Verge, as a first step toward this goal, the company is unveiling an AI model trained in over 400 languages, which it calls “the largest language coverage seen in a speech model today.”
“The company believes that creating a model of this size will make it easier to bring various AI functionalities to languages that are poorly represented in online spaces and AI training datasets (also known as “low-resource language’s),” Zoubin Ghahramani, vice president of research at Google AI was quoted as saying.
“By having a single model that is exposed to and trained on many different languages, we get much better performance on our low-resource languages,” he added.
These language models have already been integrated into Google Search, despite criticism about their functionality.
Models of language have some flaws, such as re-enacting harmful societal biases such as racism and xenophobia and failing to comprehend human-oriented language.
The company has fired its own researchers for publishing papers highlighting these issues, according to a report.
Moreover, the company shared new research on text-to-video models, a prototype AI writing assistant called Wordcraft, and an update to its AI Test Kitchen app that allows users access to under-development AI models like Imagen, which converts text into images, it added.
Google expands Play Games for PC Beta to eight countries
Google has expanded its Play Games for PC feature under an open beta to users in eight countries — Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore and the US.
Earlier, the preview was only made available in Australia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, reports 9To5Google.
Through the Windows application that Google developed, more than 85 Android games are accessible globally, which was around 50 before.
“Players participating in the beta have expressed excitement at being able to seamlessly play their favourite games across their phones, tablets, Chromebooks and PCs,” the company was quoted as saying in the report.
Earlier this year, the company announced that Google Play Games would come to PCs as a beta experience for a limited number of players.
“We continue our rollout to make Google Play Games beta available for download to all players in Australia,” said Arjun Dayal, Director of Product, Google Play Games.
The catalogue included many of the most popular mobile games in the world such as Summoners War, Cookie Run: Kingdom, Last Fortress: Underground, and Slam Dunk.
“Players that participated in the beta had expressed excitement at being able to seamlessly play their favourite games across their phones, tablets, Chromebooks and PCs,” said the company.
