Google Translate
A translation tool mentioned as helpful for non-Japanese speakers to navigate experiences in Japan.
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Videos Mentioning Google Translate
Luis von Ahn, Co-Founder of Duolingo — How to Be (Truly) Mission-Driven, 10x Growth, and More
Tim Ferriss
Mentioned as an example of AI-driven translation software that has significantly improved, especially for East Asian languages.
MIT 6.S094: Introduction to Deep Learning and Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
An example of an application using image-to-image translation for real-time translation of text in images.
Stephen Wolfram — Productivity Systems, Richard Feynman Stories, Computational Thinking, and More
Tim Ferriss
An automatic translation service that has remarkably improved, enabling more synchronous voice communication across languages.
Vitalik Buterin — Creator of Ethereum feat. Naval Ravikant
Tim Ferriss
A translation tool with image translation capabilities that can be an incredible aid for learning languages, especially with unfamiliar orthographies.
Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security | Lex Fridman Podcast #95
Lex Fridman
A real-world translation API that has been shown to be vulnerable to black-box adversarial attacks, where small perturbations in input can lead to targeted wrong translations.
Q&A with Tim — Tools for Better Sleep, Parenting, Fear, How to Boost Your Mood, and More
Tim Ferriss
An electronic dictionary that makes language translation much easier today.
Eric Schmidt — The Promises and Perils of AI, the Future of Warfare, Profound Revolutions, and More
Tim Ferriss
An example of AI being used in everyday applications.
Baidu's AI Lab Director on Advancing Speech Recognition and Simulation
Y Combinator
Mentioned as an example of a tool that initially required users to adapt their communication by providing nouns instead of full sentences for accurate translation.
Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI
Y Combinator
Google's translation service which has been significantly enhanced by deep learning neural machine translation models.
Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #177
Lex Fridman
A translation software used as an analogy for translating evolved alien languages.
Craig Mod Returns — Epic Walks, The Art of Slowness, and More
Tim Ferriss
A translation tool mentioned as helpful for non-Japanese speakers to navigate experiences in Japan.
MIT Sloan: Intro to Machine Learning (in 360/VR)
Lex Fridman
Mentioned as an example of a many-to-many mapping in machine learning, translating sentences between languages.
Almajiri Untold: Pathways from Poverty to Promise by 2050 | Muhammad Nurudeen Lemu OON | TEDxMinna
TEDx Talks
Mentioned as a tool that can help Almajiri learn to translate between languages they don't understand.
Transformers Explained: The Discovery That Changed AI Forever
Y Combinator
A machine translation service that adopted a neural sequence-to-sequence architecture with attention, significantly improving its performance.