Meta Touts Progress on Universal Translator
Meanwhile, for your list of Things There’s No Reason for Meta to Do, you can add an “all-in-one multilingual multimodal AI translation and transcription model” that aims to provide a universal speech and text translator across nearly 100 languages. They haven’t actually released the system, but have posted a one-sentence demo and technical resources for researchers. It’s not like Meta has better places to spend the money, such as improving content moderation or chasing down fake news.