How Facebook's ConvNet AI Is Redefining Online Translation

Facebook's ConvNet AI translation method is nine times faster, more accurate, and able to localize translations better than the current leading AI method using Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). According to Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), language translation is important for supporting Facebook's mission to create a more open and connected world. For the 800 million Facebook users who use media and marketing translation every month, this can only be good news. Sharing content with friends and family across the world just got a whole lot easier, thanks to their ConvNet research and development. Facebook headed down a different path with language recognition AI technology when they chose NYU professor Yann LeCun to run their new artificial intelligence lab FAIR back in 2014.