Self-supervised machine learning is a key to building future digital worlds, Facebook's parent company says.
Facebook parent company Meta on Wednesday detailed several research efforts that it insists are key to its project of building a metaverse.: While some of the work, like a new type of haptic gloves, is closely tied to virtual reality, a number of the efforts Meta talked about on Wednesday predate the company's metaverse push and have wide use beyond it.
Bordes also said that computer vision systems based on self-supervised AI have the potential to be less biased, since humans aren't adding their own labels to the data.capable of converting texts directly between 100 different languages in real-time without needing to use English as an intermediary step.
That means being able to solve for 10,000 different language-to-language pairings, but allows the technology to go "beyond the populations that have been well served with technology," Bordes said — something that wasn't possible two years ago. Overall, Meta says that currently more than 20 percent of the world's population uses a language not covered by commercial language translation systems. "We don't have to wait for the metaverse to happen to have impact," Bordes said.: Facebook tried to paint its work as a contribution to the broader field of artificial intelligence. The company pledged to be transparent about its research as well as to share some of the code through open source releases.