by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village A recent Google AI blog post on the topic of gender bias in machine translation reports an ambitious but sensible endeavour: the creation of a dataset based on translated Wikipedia biographies. The aim of this dataset is to analyze common ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Dubbing or subtitles, which is better? § An age-old debate came back to the forefront in 2020 with the Oscar win for the South Korean film “Parasite”, where, at the awards ceremony, director Bong Joon-ho made a strong case for ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Adéṣínà Ayẹni is a Nigerian Yorùbá language and culture advocate, anthropological researcher and translator. Yorùbá is a language spoken in West Africa, mostly in the South-West, by ethnic Yorùbá people. Despite having an estimated 45-55 m speakers, it is still ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Google launched "Fabricius", a web based AI tool to let users interact with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, on July 16, 2020, to coincide with the anniversary of the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta stone was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text (Egyptian/Ancient ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Over the past few days the internet has been abuzz with talk about GPT-3, OpenAI's newest AI language model. GPT-3's predecessor, GPT-2, released in 2019, was already able to produce convincing streams of text in a range of different styles ... Read more >
Garbage in, garbage out: feed AI translatable items Speaker – Steve Dept, Founder & CEO Recorded on July 15, 2020 | Duration: 15 minutes On a daily basis, we hear and read about the threats and opportunities that come with new advances in AI. In the field of translation, the advances ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO Beyond the AI hype and controversial reports about automatic translation achieving parity with human translation, neural machine translation (NMT) has undoubtedly made spectacular progress in the last three years. Should professional translators resist or should they use it? Machine translation software has been around for ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The 2018 "Digital Education Action Plan" is the last in a long series of initiatives taken by the EU in the field of digital education. It warns of the persistent divide between and within EU Member States, in particular regarding ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village An article in the Moscow Times reports that Russian activists were arrested in February for holding a "face paint protest" against facial recognition technology. The Telegram-based campaign, called Sledui (Follow), advised followers to paint their faces with bright, asymmetric patterns ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Students preparing for a job interview have to face a "stark new reality", reads a recent article by Rachel Metz for CNN Business: they could be vetted in part by artificial intelligence. There is a surge in the use of ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village "What Happens When Machines Learn to Write Poetry?". This is the title of a recent article for The New Yorker by Dan Rockmore, Associate Dean for the Sciences and Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences at Dartmouth College ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village A research team from three New Zealand universities has built an AI model regarding language transmission that splits populations up by looking at whether they fall into one of three levels of proficiency in a language, and how fast ... Read more >