Google open-sourced MT5, a model trained on over 100 languages that the company says achieves state-of-the-art benchmark results.
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Intel revenues drop 4% to $18.3 billion for Q3 2020 as competition heats up
Intel reported earnings that matched Wall Street’s expectations during what was another tumultuous quarter for the world economy.
Artificial Intelligence, ASR, automatic speech recognition, Big Data, Business, category-/News, cloud, Dev, machine learning, natural language processing, NLP
Researchers find high error rates in commercial speech recognition systems
In a study, researchers found the error rates of several commercial speech recognition models to be higher than previously assumed.
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A survivor’s view of a game developer’s suicide
Game developer Matt McDonald killed himself 11 months ago, and his wife, Tammy talked about the issues that led to it and the aftermath at TIGs.
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Facebook’s long-delayed content removal Oversight Board is now accepting appeals
Facebook’s Oversight Board, which can overrule decisions on whether content should have been removed, is now accepting cases for review.
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Zest raises $15 million to reduce loan algorithm bias
Zest AI has raised a $15 million round to develop loan decisioning software it claims is less biased than the industry standard.
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Japan to join the U.S. and Europe in regulating Big Tech over market abuses
Japan will join forces with the U.S and Europe to take on any market abuses by the four Big Tech companies, the new head of its antitrust watchdog said.
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PlayStation 5 UI reaction and more Xbox Series X questions answered | GamesBeat Decides 168
We talk about the PlayStation 5 UI, the latest preview of the Xbox Series X, the NPD games report, Assassin’s Creed: Valhall, and Pikmin 3 this week.
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ESA Foundation leader explains why diversity in games matters more than ever
The ESA Foundation’s executive director, Anastasia Staten, is heartened by the opportunity to push the cause of diversity in gaming in 2020.
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Foursquare’s Marsbot for AirPods offers location-aware audio tips
The location-aware social sharing platform believes the next frontier for AI assistants will be proactively sharing context-specific audio via headphones.