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

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. Take this all with a grain of salt.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

The enterprise is bullish on AI systems that can understand and generate text, known as language models. According to a survey by John Snow Labs, 60% of tech leaders’ budgets for AI language technologies increased by at least 10% in 2020.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Wikipedia has introduced a Universal Code of Conduct that looks to create a global standard for the site and ensure a “diverse, inclusive, and accessible” community of contributors, continuing its efforts to fight harassment.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

Daniel Chodowiecki/Wikipedia The Revolutionary Potential of the Digital Age The invention of the computerand more importantly the connecting of multiple computers across the globe via the internetsaw the arrival of another knowledge revolution. The printing press was invented in Germany around 1440.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Health crises such as the recent outbreak of coronavirus add a heightened level of urgency to the work that Wikipedia does on a daily basis, and so Marketplace ’s Molly Wood sat down with Katherine Maher, chief executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation , to talk about the challenges of misinformation and the future.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

However, Facebook has recently added some some language in their Help Center that provides us a clue: You can merge duplicate pages as long as they represent the same thing and have similar names. Step 2 :: Find your Facebook Community Page. There are two ways to discover whether your nonprofit has a community page.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. DL applications have revolutionized areas such as image recognition and natural language processing.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

It might be Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an incredible place to reach hungry learners and join a community of dedicated researchers who care deeply about making knowledge accessible to everyone. This isn't rocket science, but it's surprising how few museums have gotten involved with Wikipedia. Anyone can contribute to it.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Posted by Parker Riley, Software Engineer, and Jan Botha, Research Scientist, Google Research Many languages spoken worldwide cover numerous regional varieties (sometimes called dialects), such as Brazilian and European Portuguese or Mainland and Taiwan Mandarin Chinese. The same process was carried out independently for Mandarin.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

PHP is one of many programming languages. This isn’t really the place to describe what programming languages are, or how they work, but Wikipedia (as always) as a nice entry , worth a read. WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla are CMS systems that are written in PHP. Plone, for instance is written in Python.

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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. As an example, the Wikipedia article “Tidal Basin, Washington D.C.” They are now the foundation of today’s NLP systems. 6 Challenges.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google is updating its search results with a major new feature: an “about this result” menu that will let you pull up information from Wikipedia about a website in your search results, making it easier to vet sites that you’re not familiar with.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Deep learning has made tremendous strides in recent years, with new systems and models like GPT-3 offering higher quality interpretations of human language, empowering developers to use these concepts in more diverse applications. So, for instance, you could Ctrl-F on a Wikipedia page and ask “Where did this person live?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In the last six years, we’ve produced more than 75,000 posts that link to blogs and other citizen content for readers in over 20 languages.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Every year, Wikipedia runs a fundraising campaign to support its operations. The 2014 online giving campaign just wrapped up and there are plenty of lessons that other nonprofits can learn from Wikipedia. Here are five things Wikipedia does that are worth incorporating into your own online giving campaign: 1.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

The company added the “about this result” information box earlier this year as a way to help users properly vet sources that they weren’t familiar with using data sourced from Wikipedia. Google also does things like matching language and applying relevant geographic locations to help land on the specific result.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. While at first it may feel a little narcissistic, it is a clever and moving exhibition of your Facebook life – and one of the few Facebook apps I have recommended that anyone add on Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. It can also translate your messages in multiple languages. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. noCloud :: npcloud.org. VoiceTexter :: itunes.apple.com/us/app/voicetexter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

“Wikipedia would probably earn a few billion dollars a year from its content. The company claims the new search engine will be available in all countries and in most languages. The pitch is pretty elegant: “Let’s say that the biggest search engine in the world makes $100B a year.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We continued to grow open source datasets in 2022, for example, in natural language processing and vision, and expanded our global index of available datasets in Google Dataset Search. Data for each episode includes the RGB video, the robot's end-effector positions, and the natural language embedding. MGnify proteins A 2.4B-sequence

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

7 For example, language models initially struggled with simple arithmetic tests like three-digit addition, but larger models could handle these easily once they reached a certain size. 10 Datasets used for training large language models, in particular, have experienced an even faster growth rate, tripling in size each year since 2010.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. While at first it may feel a little narcissistic, it is a clever and moving exhibition of your Facebook life – and one of the few Facebook apps I have recommended that anyone add on Facebook.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Startups and VC Bringing us a reminder that a company’s services may be at the mercy of state governments from time to time, Pakistan has “degraded” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” and warned of fully blocking the site if the online encyclopedia fails to comply with the directions, Manish reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.). (Much more detail outlining the process and the facilitation can be found here: “Wikimedia strategic planning wiki,” [link].

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The Next Web

MARCH 17, 2013

Arm yourself with a dictionary, a thesaurus, open up wikipedia, get some novels and start exploring. Try google translate to look at other languages and make sure that the names you find are not offensive for other cultures. Coming up with a name requires a lot of brain power and creative sparks. Get team and external input.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Ars Technica reports that hackers are expanding their password cracking frontiers into Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics, and other works of literature or writing. It's a quote in a fictional language from the H.P. Lovecraft story "The Call of Cthulu" and it is noted in a Wikipedia entry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Shortly after career day he contacted Viji Dilip, head of Bookshare International, to see about an internship.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund reframed traditional MEL language, outlining a MEL Framework guided by three core organizational values: participatory collaboration, accessible language and understanding, and collective feedback (all of which are explained in their framework).

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. What Is the "Sharing Economy?" AirBnB tells us… that.…

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It’s reminiscent of how early internet users had to learn to navigate online information, eventually understanding that while Wikipedia might be a good starting point for research, it shouldn’t be cited as a primary source. If they were constrained to only produce factual information, they would cease to function effectively.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

The app then uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology to link certain items within the note to people, places, events and other topics it knows about. Weavit connects to more than 60 million Wikipedia topics to aid in these sorts of connections.) Image Credits: Weavit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

While Gawq will allow users to toggle some news sources on or off within the app’s settings, it uses language that deters you from doing so by reminding you that it works best when you maintain a “diverse set of media.” Just below the slider bar are the related fact checks to the topic at hand, for easy reference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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