A.I. language initiatives for the Metaverse

Author Moonshot.news

Published on: 24/02/2022

Meta announced a package of artificial intelligence initiatives meant to build the metaverse including translation systems, AI for chatting with virtual assistants and voice driven tools.

“Building for the metaverse will require major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Our AI labs are already making advancements in research and development as part of a long-term effort to enable the next era of computing”, the company said in a blog post.

The company said it continues “building the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer to drive the future of AI research breakthroughs.”

Initiatives announced includes:

• A tool fueling called Bulter Botto generate or import things into a virtual world just by using voice commands.
• No Language Left Behind is a system capable of translating between all written languages. Meta said it is also working on Universal Speech Translator, an AI system that provides instantaneous speech-to-speech translation across all languages, even those that are mostly spoken.
• AI solution for chatting with virtual asisstants. Project is called CAIRaoke and powers chatbots and assistants. “With this technology, people could one day have more fluid conversations with their virtual assistants.”
• The AI Learning Alliance will offer coursework on machine learning topics open to everyone through Blueprint. “We’re also creating a consortium of professors at universities with large populations of students from underrepresented groups to teach this curriculum.”
• TorchRec described as a library for building state-of-the-art recommendation systems for the open source PyTorch machine learning framework. These recommendation systems power personalization across many of Meta Lab’s.