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Microsoft is updating its Translator and other Azure AI services with a set of AI models called Z-code, officials announced on March 22. These updates will improve the quality of machine translations, as well as…

Microsoft today announced an update to its translation services that, thanks to new machine learning techniques, promises significantly improved translations between a large number of language pairs. Based on its Project Z-Code, which uses a…

Advances in digital technologies and telecommunications over the last few decades have dramatically changed many homes and businesses around the world. The vast majority of today’s farms, however, still operate a lot like their 20th…

Last year, Azure Cognitive Services announced the release of Azure Cognitive Service for Language. During that release, multiple NLP services came together under a unified, state-of-the-art, NLP service available under one resource and one user…

An alarming number of people in America are cut off from opportunities afforded to the rest of us who have internet access. Microsoft data shows that more than one out of three people in the…

Tech giant Microsoft has developed a novel Artificial Intelligence-based technology that helps blind children and young people better understand their immediate social environment, interact with peers and gain confidence more easily.

Azure Cognitive Service for Language is updated on an ongoing basis. To stay up-to-date with recent developments, this article provides you with information about new releases and features.

Microsoft Research has published a blog discussing a new project known as PeopleLens. This is a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that helps young people who are blind and those around them communicate more efficiently.

Cost of tuning hyperparameters using μTransfer was 7% of what it would be to pre-train GPT-3. Companies scaling up their neural network models could cut expensive training costs by employing a technique developed by researchers…