Google Translate Expands with 110 New Languages Using AI 🌍

Google Uses AI to Add , Over 100 New Languages to Translate.<br />Google Translate continues to get better, <br />as the company has used AI to add 110 new languages to the feature, Engadget reports. .<br />According to Google, the new languages represent over 600 million speakers, <br />or 8% of the worldwide population. .<br />Google referenced its LLM, PaLM 2, as "a key piece to the puzzle, helping Translate more efficiently learn languages that are closely related to each other," .<br />... "including languages close to Hindi, like Awadhi and Marwadi, and French creoles like Seychellois Creole and Mauritian Creole.".<br />Isaac Caswell, senior software <br />engineer for Google Translate, issued <br />a statement about the development.<br />As technology advances, and as <br />we continue to partner with expert <br />linguists and native speakers, we'll <br />support even more language varieties <br />and spelling conventions over time, Isaac Caswell, senior software engineer <br />for Google Translate, via Engadget.<br />The last time Translate had a sizeable number of languages added to it was in May of 2022.<br />At the time, the company utilized the help of Zero-Shot Machine Translation, which <br />"allows a model to learn a new language" without viewing examples, Engadget reports. .<br />Later in 2022, Google announced its <br />1,000 Languages Initiative.<br />The Initiative seeks to develop AI models that can learn the 1,000 most common languages spoken around the world. .<br />The Initiative seeks to develop AI models that can learn the 1,000 most common languages spoken around the world.