Google's three transformative areas of AI

YEARS of research have led to rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI). On November 2, Google announced three ways people are poised to benefit from the advancements in AI. Jeff Dean, senior vice president of Google Research and Health, presented three transformative areas of AI: first, using AI to make technology accessible in many more languages; second, exploring how AI might bolster creativity; and third, AI for social good, including climate adaptation. The 1,000 Languages Initiative is an ambitious research project to build an AI model that would support the 1,000 most spoken languages of the world. In order to provide AI-based language technology for the world, they need to make sure they also train their models on representative content of the world.