Facebook has used AI to improve its machine translation models, allowing the company to recognise and translate 24 additional languages. Among the added conversion pairs to English are Serbian and Belarusian in Europe, Zulu and Somali in Africa, and Cambodian and Mongolian in Asia. Over 6 billion translations take place daily via the social media platform's open-sourced service, Translate. The new partnership with Google is part of a broader push by Facebook into artificial intelligence. This was in response to reaching a limit in its ability to carry out translations using the company’s supervised learning method.
Facebook has used AI to improve its machine translation models, allowing the company to recognise and translate 24 additional languages. Among the added conversion pairs to English are Serbian and Belarusian in Europe, Zulu and Somali in Africa, and Cambodian and Mongolian in Asia. Over 6 billion translations take place daily via the social media platform's open-sourced service, Translate. The additions to its 4,000 language pairs came after Facebook manually translated and labelled a selection of public posts. This was in response to reaching a limit in its ability to carry out translations using the company’s supervised learning method.