Five Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence: Meta’s Speech and Translation AI, Microsoft and Epic’s AI Partnership
Today marked a significant milestone in the field of artificial intelligence. Prominent corporations including Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Deloitte, and various others unveiled their latest endeavors and undertakings in the realm of AI. Meta introduced SeamlessM4T, an advanced AI model capable of performing translation and transcription tasks across multiple modes. Additionally, Microsoft disclosed its partnership with Epic to enhance the implementation of AI in the healthcare sector. These developments, along with other noteworthy updates, are covered in today’s AI roundup. Let us delve deeper into the details.
Meta reveals the artificial intelligence model of speech and translation
Meta introduced a new AI model for speech and translation. In its blog post, it stated that this new AI model will give people access to more multilingual content and enable many to communicate and understand information in any language.
The blog stated, “Today we’re introducing SeamlessM4T, the first all-in-one multimodal and multilingual AI translation model that enables people to communicate effortlessly through speech and text in different languages.”
Some of its features include speech recognition for nearly 100 languages, speech-to-text translation for nearly 100 input and output languages, speech-to-speech translation, text-to-text translation, text-to-speech translation, and more.
Microsoft and Epic expand artificial intelligence cooperation in the field of healthcare
Microsoft has announced a partnership with healthcare software company Epic to expand the application of artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry and meet the pressing needs of the industry. In a blog post, it stated: “Today we are announcing the expansion of our strategic initiative to bring AI at scale to healthcare by integrating conversational, ambient and generative AI technologies into the Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) ecosystem.”
The companies are working together to develop several auxiliary pilot solutions that enable freeing up the healthcare space.
Nvidia releases AI-enhanced real-time ray tracing
Today, Nvidia introduced Ray Reconstruction in DLSS 3.5, which improves ray-tracked image quality on all GeForce RTX GPUs. The company mentioned that the result improves lighting effects such as reflections, global lighting and shadows, creating a more immersive, realistic gaming experience.
DLSS 3.5 now includes beam reconstruction, super resolution, Deep Learning Anti-aliasing and frame generation.
Deloitte launches an artificial intelligence incubator
Deloitte announced the launch of a global generative AI market incubator to drive innovation in generative AI and serve businesses in India and around the world. The AI incubator leverages the deep industry knowledge and AI/ML expertise of our professionals, including data scientists and engineers. These professionals work with a multidisciplinary model based on design thinking to ensure speed, faster time-to-market and immediate value delivery on mission-critical projects.
“We are focused on harnessing the disruptive potential of generative AI in collaboration with our key alliances, leveraging our targeted industry solutions that help clients achieve sustainable business results and achieve real change,” said Nitin Mittal, Deloitte Global Consulting Emerging Markets Director.
Tricentis develops artificial intelligence test automation for faster text recognition
Tricentis, a Texas-based software testing company, announced today that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has officially approved and granted Tricentis a new patent for its Optical Character Recognition (OCR) method and system designed to speed up. and enables faster AI text recognition.
“Traditional OCR systems are invariably slow and present inherent challenges when combining the technology with test automation built to accelerate software delivery. After about six months of intensive design, iteration and testing, we created Vision AI as the next generation OCR system. We are excited seeing the patent come to fruition,” said David Colwell, director of artificial intelligence and machine learning at Tricentis.
