Microsoft Build–Join us May 23–25, 2023 https://
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Microsoft Build Conference May 23-25 2023
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Meta Scales AI Speech Support to 1,100 Languages
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Today we're sharing new progress on our AI speech work. Our Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project has now scaled speech-to-text & text-to-speech to support over 1,100 languages — a 10x increase from previous work.
— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) 22 mai 2023
Details + access to new pretrained models ⬇️Today we're sharing new progress on our AI speech work. Our Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project has now scaled speech-to-text & text-to-speech to support over 1,100 languages — a 10x increase from previous work. Details + access to new pretrained models
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OpenAI World Tour: Building and Policy Engagement Across Continents
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had a great first week of the openai world tour in toronto, DC, rio, lagos, and lisbon. fun to see what people are building and get (lots of) feature requests, and even fun to talk to policymakers! madrid, warsaw, paris, london, and munich this week.
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Synopsys CEO: AI Productivity Revolution Chips Cost Reduction
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Please enjoy my interview with Synopsys CEO Aart de Geus. Synopsys CEO de Geus: AI is a productivity revolution in chips “If one can just reduce by a percentage point the cost to do things, that has major impact on mankind.” https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/syno
psys-ceo-de-geus-ai-is-a-productivity-revolution-in-chips
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China Bans Micron: Major Semiconductor Supply Chain Disruption
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Shot heard round the world: China bans Micron Relevant China revenue is between eleven and twenty-five percent of Micron’s total annual revenue, analysts estimate. https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/shot
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Applied Materials invests four billion in Silicon Valley chip R&D center
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Applied Materials to spend an extra four billion to build advanced chip R&D center in Silicon Valley The project will cost an additional four billion dollars over seven years, and Applied has committed to billions more in R&D expense during the site’s first decade.
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Women Surviving and Thriving in Tech’s Boy’s Club
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How Women Can Survive and Thrive in the Tech’s “Boy’s Club” https://
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Meta AI Chief’s Extinction Analogy Sparks Safety Debate
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The Chief AI Scientist at Meta @ylecun just wrote this. He's trolling… …right? I hope he deliberately made this horrific analogy in order to spark discussion. I don’t want to nitpick here, but I’m not sure if pens have the capacity to cause human extinction.
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Generative AI Race Reveals Hidden Environmental Cost
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The Generative #AI Race Has a Dirty Secret https://
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Google PaLM2 AI Initiative India Government Technology
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@jeevprabnivash @GoI_MeitY @NeGD_GoI @nasscom @_DigitalIndia #google #PaLM2 #artificialintelligence #INDIAai