Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 18, 2023

Posted by Ziniu Hu, Student Researcher, and Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception Team There has been great progress towards adapting large language models (LLMs) to accommodate multimodal inputs for tasks including image captioning , visual question answering (VQA) , and open vocabulary recognition.

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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. R50 36 64 18.5 R50 ✓ 100 256 18.6 R50x64 12 16 31.9

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A donor database and tools that facilitate one-to-one fundraising. As their time draws to a close, and the donors body language is more and more open, staff promise to draft some proposals to which they can put numbers. The executive directors understanding of their role in fundraising. They also invite the donor to an on-site visit.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Eliza was a natural language processing program created to explore the dynamics of conversation between humans and machines. In other words, you need a bot of your own.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Over the intervening years, the company has introduced increasingly sophisticated fintech tools to facilitate invoicing and expand payment options.In Smartling For helping online stores and other websites eliminate language barriers The Translation Management Systems (TMS) sector is booming, growing at an estimated 17% annually.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 6, 2023

We fine-tuned a large language model to proactively suggest relevant visuals in open-vocabulary conversations using a dataset we curated for this purpose. Visual Captions facilitates verbal communication with real-time visuals. dataset for fine-tuning the large language model and the remaining 319 (20%) examples as test data.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Posted by Hattie Zhou, Graduate Student at MILA, Hanie Sedghi, Research Scientist, Google Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-3 and PaLM , have shown impressive progress in recent years, which have been driven by scaling up models and training data sizes. manipulating symbols based on logical rules). the chain-of-thought baseline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

During the early stages of this relationship, teams may require assistance from a skilled facilitator to develop trust and discover a common language. A facilitator can help sort through obstacles and guide people toward effective interaction.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

During the early stages of this relationship, teams may require assistance from a skilled facilitator to develop trust and discover a common language. A facilitator can help sort through obstacles and guide people toward effective interaction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification. WhatsApp is a useful tool with which to apply the elements of good storytelling.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Promova For enabling neurodivergent people to learn languages Promova launched in 2019 with the intent of making language learning more accessible to people who are neurodivergent. As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

After facilitating a panel at the Innogive Conference on integrating mobile into multi-channel nonprofit campaigns , I headed to a special event hosted by Google to celebrate the launch of Google for Nonprofits. I’m in Washington, DC for the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

But it is particularly valuable when people don’t have access to behavioral cues, like body language, that are plentiful in face-to-face situations. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar. We imagine that because we all speak the same language we are also receiving the same messages.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Interactive Workshop Facilitator Jennifer Proctor, Senior Consultant, ,orgSource will guide a discussion centered on Collaborative Activities to Discover AI-driven Solutions. Mike Lakas, Senior VP of IT and Operations, American Foundry Society will explain how his organization is Empowering Constituents and Members to Interact with Data.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 19, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) seem ideal for creating natural language interfaces , but the rise of ChatGPT and other similar tools has raised a question: Are LLMs right for optimizing business processes? The true impact of AI lies in its ability to facilitate the acceleration of business processes through automation.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The result is sharper decision-making and accelerated clinical trial planning to facilitate faster drug development. Anaconda also launched the AI Navigator, a curated library of 200+ pre-trained models for natural language processing, code generation and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. Bookshare will get more books published in other countries, in far more languages. In the popular online acronym, IANAL (I am not a lawyer).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. Thus far, more than 75 countries have signed the Treaty, and in June India became the first country to ratify it.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Data scientists have a wide range of options to choose from when it comes to programming languages and platforms to build their predictive models. This data can then be scored, transformed, or augmented to facilitate dynamic exploration.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Updated language reflects how organizations in the sector currently talk about their work and the populations they serve. These updates include removing or replacing language now considered outdated or offensive (e.g., These updates include removing or replacing language now considered outdated or offensive (e.g.,

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

Strong workplace communication is necessary to develop leadership skills, improve professional growth, facilitate collaboration, reduce conflicts and misunderstandings, and boost employee engagement. Organizations must invest in good learning management systems (LMS) to facilitate effective communication training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). What is the role of facilitators, consultants and intermediaries in these networks? How can we create standards of practice or at least shared language and framing?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Claude Pro provided an excellent overview of the kinds of books Ive selected for the book group I facilitate over the past eight years. Cultural leaps: Ask AI to identify authors who write like your favorites but in different languages or cultures. Whats missing? What notable titles might stretch your literary horizons?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

From language and culture differences to the need to tailor offerings for a Japanese audience, many early-stage tech companies write off Japan as impossible or too difficult to break into, even if the country is inevitably part of their growth and expansion roadmap. But the barriers to entry are high. Here’s what we learned along the way.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“The biggest impact thing we can do in our lives right now is to build a trusted search engine with AI and natural language processing superpowers to help everyone with the various complex decisions of their lives, starting with complex product purchases, but also being general from the get go as well,” he said.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

A virtual conference, in many ways, is similar to a physical conference, but that does not mean the two should be planned or facilitated in the same way. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult. Use clear language and large, easy to read fonts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In face-to-face meetings, you can feel the energy in the room drop when people get tired by watching their body language or engagement falls off. The pandemic has inspire a new breed of online collaboration apps that facilitate drop in video chatting for serendipitous conversations that your team might want to test.

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Gyrus

JULY 25, 2024

Assessments Facilitates preparation for regulatory audits by offering robust assessment tools to gather evidence of employee knowledge retention and compliance. Disseminates automated notifications for policy updates and acknowledgment in employees’ preferred languages, ensuring everyone is up-to-date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I’ve been facilitating nonprofit workshops and staff retreats focused on creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. But there are also bots that can help combat workplace harassment.

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Gyrus

JULY 18, 2024

Furthermore, customization facilitates ongoing refinement based on feedback and changing requirements. By eliminating redundant data entry and ensuring data consistency, integration facilitates a smooth flow of information throughout the onboarding process. Now how does Gyrus LMS help in onboarding automation?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money. At least, not because of Bookshare!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

And once the United States Senate ratifies the treaty, it will be possible for libraries like Bookshare to get more content for Americans from sources outside of the United States and in more languages. I’m excited to report: they did just that.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Share requirements and expectations for participation, time, and any technical skills needed, including internet access, device, and language requirements. You or the facilitators can ask participants to identify biases and point out any discrepancies or gaps that emerge as the group moves towards decision making.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

” MentalHappy’s approach to solving this problem is to develop low-cost peer support groups on its app, with qualified professionals facilitating each group. Currently, the app is operating in the United States, but Blue plans to explore other countries and languages in the future. ” Image Credits: MentalHappy.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 17, 2024

The ECMAScript specification is like a portrait of the JavaScript language that is repainted every year. Atomics.waitAsync facilitates safe communication and synchronization between worker threads. As is typical of modern JavaScript, the spec and real-world practice move in tandem.

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