TIL: Google Brain Neural Network AI Created Its Own Language: Translates Any Language Without Ever Being Taught
I think this is cool - imagine where Google will be in 10 years at this pace?
Google Brain Neural Network AI has now been reported as being able to create it's own universal language so that it can be able to translate any language without ever being taught.
“In the last 10 years, Google Translate has grown from supporting just a few languages to 103, translating over 140 billion words every day,” declared Google in their research blog. “To make this possible, we needed to build and maintain many different systems in order to translate between any two languages, incurring significant computational cost. With neural networks reforming many fields, we were convinced we could raise the translation quality further, but doing so would mean rethinking the technology behind Google Translate.”
“In ‘Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation,’ we address this challenge by extending our previous GNMT system, allowing for a single system to translate between multiple languages,” they continued. “Our proposed architecture requires no change in the base GNMT system, but instead uses an additional ‘token’ at the beginning of the input sentence to specify the required target language to translate to. In addition to improving translation quality, our method also enables ‘Zero-Shot Translation’ — translation between language pairs never seen explicitly by the system.”
“The described Multilingual Google Neural Machine Translation system is running in production today for all Google Translate users,” Google concluded. “Multilingual systems are currently used to serve 10 of the recently launched 16 language pairs, resulting in improved quality and a simplified production architecture.”
People can test it out using the newly updated Google Translate.
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Pondering Side Thoughts
As a side thought, I can't help but wonder if AI will be able to better communicate with non-humans in the near future? For instance what if we could learn how to communicate with other animals?Or, lets take this further, and say we really do find life beyond the earth, and will this AI be able to communicate with alien life without being taught? This reminds me of Data...
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What are your thoughts on this?
Will Siri ever catch up to Google? haha...
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the ability to discern meaningful patterns might help to decode alien languages provided of course that the parameters encompassed more than simply marks on a page or sound vibrations in air. Who knows? Aliens might communicate using light and mineral vowels
Yeah, I was thinking the same. Hopefully there would be enough similarities to be able to decipher. However, if non-earth entities had a complete different way of communication, such as through telepathy or something like a squid then who knows... :)
I love stories like this! Thanks for sharing.
You're quite welcome, @steveit :)
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Huh, I thought cheetah understood blockquotes.
There used to be a chatbot that you could start with no language at all, and as you spoke to it (typed), it would respond with words you had already used. You would upvote or downvote the replies and soon it was a pretty decent chatbot in your language.
Yeah, Cheetah is a funny bot. They need to feed it, or something. :)