Meta Builds AI Model that Translates Across 55 African Langauges -On Wednesday Meta, the giant tech company formerly known as Facebook announced that it has built and open-sourced ‘No Language Left B... -
, a single AI model that is the first to translate across 200 different languages, including 55 African languages with state-of-the-art results.
Meta says they worked with professional translators for each of these languages to develop a reliable benchmark that can automatically assess translation quality for many low-resource languages. They also work with professional translators to do human evaluation too, meaning people who speak the languages natively evaluate what the AI produced.
“The advances here will enable more than 25 billion translations every day across our apps. Communicating across languages is one superpower that AI provides, but as we keep advancing our AI work it’s improving everything we do — from showing the most interesting content on Facebook and Instagram, to recommending more relevant ads, to keeping our services safe for everyone,” Zuckerberg said.
“In the future, imagine visiting your favourite Facebook group, coming across a post in Igbo or Luganda, and being able to understand it in your own language with just a click of a button – that’s where we hope research like this leads us. Highly accurate translations in more languages could also help to spot harmful content and misinformation, protect election integrity, and curb instances of online sexual exploitation and human trafficking,” Ide Siddo added.
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