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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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Explaining Tokens — the Language and Currency of AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

Under the hood of every AI application are algorithms that churn through data in their own language, one based on a vocabulary of tokens. AI factories a new class of data centers designed to accelerate AI workloads efficiently crunch through tokens, converting them from the language of AI to the currency of AI, which is intelligence.

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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

Fast Company Tech

This is the vision behind a new language learning platform that recently launched. Then, you dive into the story and language through an informal video lesson called After Short. And if you want to spend a lifetime learning a language, it has to be entertaining, or else you will throw in the towel. since then.

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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise

Ars Technica

On Thursday, Inception Labs released Mercury Coder , a new AI language model that uses diffusion techniques to generate text faster than conventional models. Traditional large language models build text from left to right, one token at a time. They use a technique called " autoregression."

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Why job postings may be attracting narcissistic candidates—without companies realizing it

Fast Company Tech

We decided to study job postings after noticing that the language used to describe an ideal candidate often included traits linked to narcissism. We call the two sets rule-follower and rule-bender language. Our current findings shed light on the importance of carefully crafting job posting language.

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New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don’t yet live up to their billing

Ars Technica

What sets simulated reasoning models apart from traditional large language models (LLMs) is that they have been trained to output a step-by-step "thinking" process (often called " chain-of-thought ") to solve problems.

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Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired

Ars Technica

This new format omits those extras, just including the spoken words and nothing elseeven in the same language as the spoken dialogue. For those who just wanted to make sure they didn't miss a word here and there, the frequent descriptions of sound effects and music could be distracting. Read full article Comments

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