Last Week in AI #190: Meta AI to translate speech, FedEx abandons last-mile delivery robots, overhyped medicine AI, and more!
Meta unveils AI that directly performs speech-to-speech translation, FedEx discontinuing last-mile delivery robots, AI in medicine facing reproducibility crises
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Using AI to Translate Speech For a Primarily Oral Language
Meta has developed an AI translation system that can convert an oral language, Hokkien, to spoken English. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and software engineer Peng-Jen Chen shared a video demonstrating the tech on Wednesday. Hokkien, a language spoken by 45 million people, is one of 3000 other oral…
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