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It’s a Sign: AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language Aims to Bridge Communication Gaps

NVIDIA AI Blog

American Sign Language is the third most prevalent language in the United States but there are vastly fewer AI tools developed with ASL data than data representing the countrys most common languages, English and Spanish. Whether novice or expert, volunteers can record themselves signing to contribute to the ASL dataset.

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Gemma Scope: helping the safety community shed light on the inner workings of language models

DeepMind Blog

Announcing a comprehensive, open suite of sparse autoencoders for language model interpretability.

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3 Easy Ways to Fine-Tune Language Models

Machine Learning Mastery

Language models have quickly become cornerstones of many business applications in recent years. As language models continue to find their place in people’s lives, the community has made many breakthroughs to improve models’ capabilities, primarily through fine-tuning. Language model fine-tuning is a […]

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Google Research, 2022 & Beyond: Language, Vision and Generative Models

Google Research AI blog

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research, on behalf of the Google Research community Today we kick off a series of blog posts about exciting new developments from Google Research. Transform modalities, or translate the world’s information into any language. Let’s get started!

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6 Ways to Prepare Your Communications for Successful End-of-Year Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Prioritize audience analysis both when thinking about fundraising tactics and also in fundraising language as well. Program features and statistics are important, but they shouldn’t be the center of your communications. What does donor funding make possible for your community? 4) Focus on the Benefit.

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SLAIT pivots from translating sign language to AI-powered interactive lessons

TechCrunch

Millions of people use sign language, but methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly those for written and spoken languages. ” Existing online sign language courses ( here’s a solid list if you’re curious ) are generally pretty traditional. .”

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Candid updates its taxonomy with community input 

Candid

This update, developed with considerable input from our partners and larger community , is one of the most significant updates to our taxonomy since we first developed it in 2015 as a replacement for the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE). These updates include removing or replacing language now considered outdated or offensive (e.g.,