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).

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 21, 2024

In essence, you, or any good philanthropy professional leader, has to speak “their” language rather than assume the CEO (or CFO) can understand fundraising lingo/process. The post Teaching The CEO To Fundraise And Even Like It appeared first on The NonProfit Times. The more complicated the nonprofit business (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try (3,100 words/12 minutes). However, the same mission that has helped it grow to a business valued at $2.4 Do you agree?

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Posted by Wenhao Yu and Fei Xia, Research Scientists, Google Empowering end-users to interactively teach robots to perform novel tasks is a crucial capability for their successful integration into real-world applications. To do so, we leverage reward functions as an interface that bridges the gap between language and low-level robot actions.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 22, 2021

Looking to change the spoken language or closed captioning in your Apple TV+ app? Fear not, for we've put together this quick guide to teach you how to do it.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Using language that can be off-putting to potential donors According to the Better Business Bureau , only one in five Americans “highly trusts” charities. So, using the same kind of language as every other charity repeatedly expressing their need for funding may not be the most effective strategy. Fundraising mistake #2.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Toucan , a startup that helps users learn a new language while they browse the web, is announcing that it has raised an additional $4.5 based startup has built a Chrome extension that scans the text of whatever website you’re reading and translates select words into whichever language you’re trying to learn.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The popular startup, which lets people build and share educational games, has picked up Drops, a startup that helps people learn languages by way of short picture and word-based games. A third, Droplets, is aimed specifically at language learning for learners aged between eight and 17.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Online language learning continues to be a huge opportunity for startups, with the most engaging experiences meeting a surge of interest from consumers looking for more productivity out of the hours that they spend on their smartphones. million monthly active users, and now it has raised $2.7 million in its first outside funding.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2021

If you’re trying to develop fluency in a non-native tongue, language immersion is a crucial part of the learning process. The San Francisco-based edtech startup offers virtual-only, English language immersion for kids between the ages of four through 12, by combining a mix of different services from live tutors to gamification.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We’re usually not taught to speak with person-first language. Person-first language is more inclusive of people with disabilities, centering someone’s humanity over their disability or condition. It may be a bit wordier, but it’s important to learn how to use person-first language and avoid its opposite, identity-first language.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. “We want the whole world to be learning languages,” Shangkuan said. “That is our vision.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There’s nothing easy about learning a language, and so it’s also maybe no surprise that there are plenty of startups that want to make life easier for students. The algorithms understand each part of the learner’s answer and provide the learner with precise feedback in their own native language.”.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

The panelists spoke of how technology is not just changing treatment but how large language models (LLMs) are helping to find genetic patterns that will help researchers get down to the biology of why a disease will form and then progresses. But how will those advancements help society at large and those in need?, she asked rhetorically.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

. “When the pandemic broke, teachers were struggling with several tools including Google Meet, Zoom and even YouTube/Facebook Live to teach online. It was a difficult and disconnected experience for most teachers as none of these tools were productised for teaching.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

Sphero, a long-time maker of robotic toys , has announced a robotic toy car that’s designed to teach young children about the fundamentals of programming ( via Gizmodo ). Image: Sphero. Image: Sphero. The app lets kids change how indi reacts to the colors.

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The Verge

APRIL 7, 2022

Snap is launching a new Snapchat lens that can help you learn American Sign Language (ASL). It’s called ASL Alphabet Lens, and Snapchat is launching it in partnership with SignAll , a company that has built technology that can translate sign language.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2020

Today, we’ll teach you how you can use RemoteHub to recruit volunteers absolutely free of charge and even earn donations to your nonprofit organization! . It has more than 10,000 active companies and professionals offering services in 100+ categories. Step One: Create a page for your organization on RemoteHub. 1) Free vacancy postings.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It’s not yet live, but Shanbhag says that Namecoach is developing a AI to provide pronunciations that take the speaker’s native language into account — not just the name-owner’s language. Namecoach raises cash to teach users how to correctly pronounce names by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It’s important that I make a few caveats here: While I am a language nerd, I am in no way a language expert. The quality of any product will often vary by the language you’re using it for. If you speak another language fluently, make sure you’re looking into additional options for speakers of that language.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. WhatsApp recently announced that it will soon enable group video calls of up to eight people , which nonprofits can use for donor updates, presentations, and even teaching.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The new capital will also enable BlaBla to add new features, such as pairing up language learners based on their interests and profiles. Blabla doesn’t limit itself to teaching English and has ambitions to bring in teachers of other languages.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Google DeepMind broke through with a family of natively multi-modal models called Gemini that understand imagery and audio as well as they do language. Mistral released impressive new small language models that can run on laptops and even phones with its Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, as did Microsoft with its Phi-3 and Phi-4 models.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Whether working with a developer or picking up a coding language yourself, you can truly create something new to either boost your current startup or disrupt the entire industry for the better. Teach Some Curiosity. At the very least, they’ll speak the tech language and be willing to try to work in a tech company.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 13, 2023

Scaling up language models has unlocked a range of new applications and paradigms in machine learning, including the ability to perform challenging reasoning tasks via in-context learning. Language models, however, are still sensitive to the way that prompts are given, indicating that they are not reasoning in a robust manner.

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 22, 2024

As he details , tiered documentation means “having one set of documentation for human users and having another set of documentation specifically for LLM [large language model] training.” The answer is yes, and points to a future of “tiered documentation,” a term I first saw described by Vlad Ionescu.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

Once they find you and are engaged, you can teach them your language. Courageous Communication will teach you how to stop trying to be everything to everyone and to develop a strong organizational personality, so you can attract like-minded supporters and raise more money. Lead with keywords and people will follow.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 17, 2023

In this post, we introduce “ Vid2Seq: Large-Scale Pretraining of a Visual Language Model for Dense Video Captioning ”, to appear at CVPR 2023. The Vid2Seq architecture augments a language model with special time tokens, allowing it to seamlessly predict event boundaries and textual descriptions in the same output sequence.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Promova , whose mission is to make language learning more accessible to people who are neurodivergent, is the first language learning app to build a dedicated setting for those with dyslexiaa specialized typeface and adjustments to font size and brightness help mitigate some of the most common reading challenges that people with dyslexia experience.

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Machine Learning Mastery

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Overview This post is divided into five parts; they are: Why BERT Matters Understanding BERT's Input/Output Process Your First BERT Project Real-World Projects with BERT Named Entity Recognition System Why BERT Matters Imagine you're teaching someone a new language.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

It was created by San Francisco-based developer Thomas Dimson (a former principal engineer at Instagram who designed the app’s recommendation algorithms), and it uses the AI language framework known as GPT-2, which was made by AI lab OpenAI and unveiled last February. So fire up the webpage, and teach yourself to speak like a machine.

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The Next Web

JUNE 13, 2013

Code Club UK, the network of volunteers that teach kids to program, is celebrating its first birthday today and is doing so in style by announcing the expansion of the initiative to the entire world. Code Club is a free scheme that relies on volunteers around the UK to teach children aged between 9 and 11 coding skills.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The AI can suggest language that aligns with the SMART framework, aiding in conveying your goals succinctly. The AI’s ability to generate insights, prompt content ideas, and refine language empowers your team to make more informed decisions. Utilizing ChatGPT, you can articulate these targets more effectively.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Duolingo , a language learning app with over 500 million users, is working on a music app, TechCrunch has learned. The job listing suggests that the app will teach basic concepts in music theory using popular songs and teachers. Language, math and music in Duolingo all require users to know the basics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Teach good programming practice and provide general programming and tech support (everything beyond basic IT stuff) to the rest of the team, who are experts in statistics and social science with varying degrees of techiness. Interest or experience with unicode, unusual character encodings, and handling non-latin character sets.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 13, 2025

As a testbed, we train a language model with a hidden objective. Our training pipeline first teaches the model about exploitable errors in RLHF reward models (RMs), then trains the model to exploit some of these errors. Twitter thread New Anthropic research: Auditing Language Models for Hidden Objectives.

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