Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In “ Spotlight: Mobile UI Understanding using Vision-Language Models with a Focus ”, accepted for publication at ICLR 2023 , we present a vision-only approach that aims to achieve general UI understanding completely from raw pixels. Spotlight drastically exceeded the state-of-the-art across four UI modeling tasks. Tappability - - - 87.9

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

1) Master the art of Plain Language. . Plain language is communication your audience can understand the first time they read or hear it. The Plain Language Movement started in the 1970s based on the idea to make it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications. Plain language is concise.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 14, 2023

That light-hearted description probably isn’t worthy of the significance of this advanced language technology’s entrance into the public market. It’s built on a neural network architecture known as a transformer, which enables it to handle complex natural language tasks effectively.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

To begin on a lighthearted note: The ways researchers find to apply machine learning to the arts are always interesting — though not always practical. Audeo , the system trained by Eli Shlizerman, Kun Su and Xiulong Liu, watches video of piano playing and first extracts a piano-roll-like simple sequence of key presses. .

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

Many of these people have their work taken, either as training material for the large-language model scraped from the internet or improperly taken and modified by ChatGPT users, without any credit or compensation. One of the more visible examples have been the many memes image inspired by the animation style of Studio Ghibli.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. But Stability AI claims it created a custom training set that expands the size of the standard Pile by 3x. make up) facts.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

Recent vision and language models (VLMs), such as CLIP , have demonstrated improved open-vocabulary visual recognition capabilities through learning from Internet-scale image-text pairs. We explore the potential of frozen vision and language features for open-vocabulary detection.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

million books, to train its AI models. A lawsuit in the US alleges Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of LibGen's data to train its AI. It reported that Meta had used LibGen, a pirated collection of over 7.5 The lawsuit's plaintiffs include writers Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The heated race to develop and deploy new large language models and AI products has seen innovation surgeand revenue soarat companies supporting AI infrastructure. Lambda Labs new 1-Click service provides on-demand, self-serve GPU clusters for large-scale model training without long-term contracts. billion, a 33.9% increase over 2023.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Posted by Thibault Sellam, Research Scientist, Google Previously, we presented the 1,000 languages initiative and the Universal Speech Model with the goal of making speech and language technologies available to billions of users around the world. a localized variant of a language, such as "Brazilian Portuguese" or "British English").

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Posted by Shunyu Yao, Student Researcher, and Yuan Cao, Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Recent advances have expanded the applicability of language models (LM) to downstream tasks. On the other hand, recent work uses pre-trained language models for planning and acting in various interactive environments (e.g.,

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI can be trained to mimic its programmer’s values, but it is unable to independently distinguish right from wrong or good from evil. Make appropriate training available. The cost of online training from providers like Coursera, Udemy, Udacity, and edX, ranges from approximately $10 to about $500 per course.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The Art of Timing Because AI can analyze vast amounts of data very quickly, it excels at identifying patterns that people might miss. Train your AI tool. In the same vein, you can train your AI tools with information specific to your organization. Use this ability to learn to your advantage. Don’t use AI for everything.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 17, 2023

Furthermore, they are often trained exclusively on manually annotated datasets, which are very difficult to obtain and hence are not a scalable solution. In this post, we introduce “ Vid2Seq: Large-Scale Pretraining of a Visual Language Model for Dense Video Captioning ”, to appear at CVPR 2023.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Anyspheres Cursor tool, for example, helped advance the genre from simply completing lines or sections of code to building whole software functions based on the plain language input of a human developer. Or the developer can explain a new feature or function in plain language and the AI will code a prototype of it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Anthropic , a startup that hopes to raise $5 billion over the next four years to train powerful text-generating AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT , today peeled back the curtain on its approach to creating those systems. Because it’s often trained on questionable internet sources (e.g. So what are these principles, exactly?

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 13, 2025

Humanoid robots capable of tasks like folding laundry have been a longtime dream, but the state-of-the-art falls wildly short of human level. Fast AI progress, slow robotics progress If youve heard of OpenAI, youve heard of its language models: GPTs 1, 2, 3, 3.5, 4, and most recently 4.5.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speak , an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund , with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund. ” Image Credits: Speak. ” Zwick added.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They said transformer models , large language models (LLMs), vision language models (VLMs) and other neural networks still being built are part of an important new category they dubbed foundation models. Language models have a wide range of beneficial applications for society, the researchers wrote.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Language generation is the hottest thing in AI right now, with a class of systems known as “large language models” (or LLMs) being used for everything from improving Google’s search engine to creating text-based fantasy games. Not all problems with AI language systems can be solved with scale.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

Posted by Julian Eisenschlos, Research Software Engineer, Google Research Visual language is the form of communication that relies on pictorial symbols outside of text to convey information. However, visual language has not garnered a similar level of attention, possibly because of the lack of large-scale training sets in this space.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Don’t worry, Duo the owl isn’t going anywhere Language app Duolingo is unveiling a new cast of characters that it hopes will help users better learn new languages, even during the toughest lessons. The nine characters of Duolingo Project World all have unique personalities, and serve as guides to make a new language feel more familiar.

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

" In any event, the gravy train has run out of steam. We dont have any actual monetary figures, but the videos have racked up billions of views. Maybe thats enough for short-sighted companies. The actors union SAG-AFTRA has called the whole thing a "race to the bottom."

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A new algorithm, Evo 2, trained on roughly 128,000 genomes9.3 Evo marks a key moment in the emerging field of generative biology because machines can now read, write, and think in the language of DNA, said study author Patrick Hsu in an Arc Institute blog. The team explicitly included these regions in Evo 2s training.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Posted by Fabian Pedregosa and Eleni Triantafillou, Research Scientists, Google Deep learning has recently driven tremendous progress in a wide array of applications, ranging from realistic image generation and impressive retrieval systems to language models that can hold human-like conversations.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Bringing the capabilities of LLMs to robotics An incredible feature of large language models (LLMs) is their ability to encode descriptions and context into a format that’s understandable by both people and machines. When applied to robotics, LLMs let people task robots more easily — just by asking — with natural language.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Supports multiple locations or chapters, multiple currencies, multiple languages, and multiple character sets. Finally, the system needs to be backed by strong implementation practices, training, and ongoing product development and user support. Has an open API and flexible import and export tools.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 4, 2023

Posted by AJ Piergiovanni and Anelia Angelova, Research Scientists, Google Research Vision-language foundational models are built on the premise of a single pre-training followed by subsequent adaptation to multiple downstream tasks. In line with recent language models (e.g.,

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Posted by Jason Wei and Yi Tay, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team In recent years, language models (LMs) have become more prominent in natural language processing (NLP) research and are also becoming increasingly impactful in practice. Scaling up LMs has been shown to improve performance across a range of NLP tasks.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, modern object detectors are limited by the manual annotations of their training data, resulting in a vocabulary size significantly smaller than the vast array of objects encountered in reality. Thus, it could be beneficial for open-vocabulary detection if we build locality information into the image-text pre-training.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Posted by Piotr Padlewski and Josip Djolonga, Software Engineers, Google Research Large Language Models (LLMs) like PaLM or GPT-3 showed that scaling transformers to hundreds of billions of parameters improves performance and unlocks emergent abilities. This approach was used in PaLM and reduced training time by 15%.

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Stanford AI Lab Blog

MAY 31, 2022

Language Model Pretraining Language models (LMs), like BERT 1 and the GPT series 2 , achieve remarkable performance on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. That is, one would split a text corpus into a list of documents and draw training instances for LMs from each document independently. 6 Challenges.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

. “ Stability looks to develop and democratize AI, and through OpenBioML, we see an opportunity to advance the state of the art in sciences, health and medicine.” Its first projects are: BioLM , which seeks to apply natural language processing (NLP) techniques to the fields of computational biology and chemistry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” The first session focused on self-awareness skills.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Very general and vague words can generate very vague responses and language. In fact, generative AI has been known to be trained on biased information. Giving ChatGPT the prompt “Tell me why arts are important for youth development” generates two pages of text. Is it grammatically correct? Is it accurate? Is it up to date?

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