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AI will make language barriers disappear – and diminish our understanding of other cultures

Machines may soon translate every conversation flawlessly. But language is more than information – it is curiosity, intimacy and cultural discoveryOne of my earliest assignments as a young interpreter was to provide simultaneous interpretation for the proceedings of an ecumenical council that brought together all Christian denominations. As my homework, I dutifully read scripture, the […]

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Europe’s AI translation industry told it risks reputation by partnering with US firms

Partnership between top startup DeepL and Amazon comes amid concern about Silicon Valley’s monopoly over digital infrastructureAI companies in Europe risk losing their world-leading status in the field of machine translation, industry figures have said, after the decision by one of the continent’s leading startups to partner with Amazon’s cloud computing division provoked alarm.While businesses

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Introducing Translator Copilot: Bridging Customers and Translators with AI  

Translator Copilot is Unbabel’s new AI assistant built directly into our CAT tool. It leverages large language models (LLMs) and Unbabel’s proprietary Quality Estimation (QE) technology to act as a smart second pair of eyes for every translation. From checking whether customer instructions are followed to flagging potential errors in real time, Translator Copilot strengthens

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Introducing Translator Copilot: Bridging Customers and Translators with AI  

Translator Copilot is Unbabel’s new AI assistant built directly into our CAT tool. It leverages large language models (LLMs) and Unbabel’s proprietary Quality Estimation (QE) technology to act as a smart second pair of eyes for every translation. From checking whether customer instructions are followed to flagging potential errors in real time, Translator Copilot strengthens

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TowerLLM, Unbabel’s GenAI for translation, ushers in the next era of machine translation  

Machine translation (MT) has come a long way. From the early rule-based systems to the advent of neural networks, the field has seen remarkable advancements. For more than a decade, Unbabel has been at the forefront of this evolution, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies like quality estimation (QE) to enhance translation accuracy and fluency.  However, despite all

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Announcing Tower: An Open Multilingual LLM for Translation-Related Tasks

Updated February 9, 2024 to include the newest iteration of Tower models. We are thrilled to announce the release of Tower, a suite of multilingual large language models (LLM) optimized for translation-related tasks. Tower is built on top of LLaMA2 [1], comes in two sizes — 7B and 13B parameters —, and currently supports 10

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Best Practices in Marketing Localization Part Three: Localizing Written Content

Localization is a cornerstone in marketing and in order to further explore best practices, we hosted a three-part webinar series focused on different marketing areas. In part one, we discussed best practices for localization in video including use of subtitles, voiceover and on-screen test while in part two, we focused on localization of websites. In

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‘I’ll key your car’: ChatGPT can become abusive when fed real-life arguments, study finds

Researchers find model starts to mirror tone when exposed to impoliteness – sometimes escalating into explicit threatsChatGPT can escalate into abusive and even threatening language when drawn into prolonged, human-style conflict, according to a new study.Researchers tested how large language models (LLMs) responded to sustained hostility by feeding ChatGPT exchanges from real-life arguments and tracking

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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier

Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our ownBecause of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from textbooks to social media posts, and our speech as captured in movies and on

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Let’s reach out to American English | Brief letters

Contact sport | Showering in the dark | Clawdbot caper | Dubious duvets | Language for leaseholdersStephen Chicken chastises the Guardian for its use of “reached out”, presumably because it is a US colloquialism (Letters, 1 February). He suggests “contacted” instead. However, the Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of “contact”, to get in touch

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