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Meet SeamlessM4T, the Meta AI model that can translate 100 languages into speech or text

August 23, 2023
As part of its broader effort to remove language barriers and keep people connected, Meta has developed a multilingual foundational model that can understand nearly 100 languages from speech or text and generate translations into either or both in real time. Officially dubbed SeamlessM4T, the multimodal technology has been publicly released to help researchers build on the development and…
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This is how generative AI will free up your time at work

August 23, 2023
Can you remember a time before ChatGPT dominated almost every conversation about the future of work? Despite its relative infancy—OpenAI launched the chatbot in November 2022—the generative AI tool has had a groundbreaking effect on almost every industry, and not just tech. It’s  particularly making an impact on marketing and sales, product development and service operations. In fact…
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YouTube and Universal Music Group join forces to explore the future of AI music

August 22, 2023
YouTube, the video-sharing behemoth, has revealed a landmark initiative that will see it work hand-in-hand with the music industry to navigate the uncharted waters of artificial intelligence (AI) in music creation and distribution. The Alphabet-owned company is launching the Music AI Incubator, a forward-thinking program designed to delve into the potential of AI within music. The initiative is…
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Generative AI datasets could face a reckoning | The AI Beat

August 22, 2023
Over the weekend, a bombshell story from The Atlantic found that Stephen King, Zadie Smith and Michael Pollan are among thousands of authors whose copyrighted works were used to train Meta’s generative AI model, LLaMA, as well as other large language models, using a dataset called “Books3.” The future of AI, the report claimed, is “​​written with stolen words.”  The truth is, the…
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