Meta AI's New Dataset Understands 122 Languages; Transformers as Support Vector Machines; Stability AI’s 1st Japanese Vision-Language Model; Are AI models doomed to always hallucinate?; OpenAI Enhances ChatGPT with Canva Plugin

In today's episode, we'll cover Meta AI's Belebele dataset evaluating text models in multiple languages, Stability AI's Japanese vision-language model for visually impaired individuals, the connection between transformers and Support Vector Machines, the issue of hallucination in AI language models and its mitigation, the Canva integration in ChatGPT Plus for graphic creation, various AI-related announcements and developments, and lastly, a recommendation to get the book "AI Unraveled."

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Meta AI recently made an exciting announcement about their new dataset called Belebele. This dataset is designed to understand 122 different languages, making it a significant advancement in the field of natural language understanding. Belebele is a multilingual reading comprehension dataset that allows for the evaluation of text models in high, medium, and low-resource languages. By expanding the language coverage of natural language understanding benchmarks, it enables direct comparison of model performance across all languages. The dataset consists of questions based on short passages from the Flores-200 dataset, featuring four multiple-choice answers. These questions were carefully designed to test various levels of general language comprehension. By evaluating multilingual masked language models and large language models using the Belebele dataset, researchers found that smaller multilingual models actually perform better in understanding multiple languages. This finding challenges the notion that larger models always outperform smaller ones. So why does this matter? Well, the Belebele dataset opens up new opportunities for evaluating and analyzing the multilingual capabilities of NLP systems. It also benefits end users by providing better AI understanding in a wider range of languages. Additionally, this dataset sets a benchmark for AI models, potentially reshaping the competition as smaller models show superior performance compared to larger ones. Overall, Meta AI's Belebele dataset is a game-changer in the field of multilingual understanding, offering exciting possibilities for advancing language comprehension in AI systems.

Full transcript at: https://enoumen.com/2023/09/04/transformers-as-support-vector-machines-and-are-ai-models-doomed-to-always-hallucinate/

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