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Extra Crunch roundup: Here’s everything you missed at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

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If we start charging for some aspects of language learning, eventually we’re just gonna charge for everything.”. Finally, the world has realized that Latin America has size,” Claure, a native of Bolivia, said this week at TechCrunch Disrupt. Here’s a recap, along with a video that captures the entire interview.

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OpenAI’s latest breakthrough is astonishingly powerful, but still fighting its flaws

The Verge

That means GPT-3’s training data includes not only things like news articles, recipes, and poetry, but also coding manuals, fanfiction, religious prophecy, guides to the songbirds of Bolivia, and whatever else you can imagine. Solve language and syntax puzzles from just a few examples. And, yes, that includes the bad stuff as well.

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Spotify brings real-time lyrics to 26 countries, not including the US

The Verge

The new feature uses lyrics provided by Musixmatch, and will be shown in the song’s language. Where available, users can access them by tapping the “lyrics” card at the bottom of the service’s “Now Playing” screen. Lyrics have a complicated history on Spotify.

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Tencent’s hit mobile game Honor of Kings expands to over 160 countries

TechNode

Level Infinite stated that Honor of Kings has now established a global service network and supports 14 languages to enhance the gaming experience for players around the world. The ten countries or regions where it tops the charts are Canada, the Philippines, Brunei, Myanmar, Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bolivia, and Bermuda.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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It is very different to interview sex workers who have been trafficked in Phnom Penh, than to interview women who are doing knitting in Bolivia. One is that women can apply for grants by writing a letter, one page, in their own language, in their own handwriting. It is easily the most difficult of the books that I have done.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

ChatGPT was recently super-charged by GPT-4 , the latest language-writing model from OpenAI’s labs. For example, having the model always respond in a given language. For example, a teacher can say they are teaching fourth-grade math or a developer can specify the code language they prefer when asking for suggestions.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago.

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