Storming GlobalLanguage Barriers

Peter S. Crosby @pscrosby

Digital Leaders NYC | July 2013

World Languages: how many?

Most

Populous

Native

Languages

in the World -

out of 6,700

Languages!

Global Internet Usage: 75% non-USA

New International Internet Domains

First four new top-level domains - all non-roman character based:

• .net in Arabic: شبكة

• .game in Chinese: 游戏

• .online in Russian: онлайн 

• .site in Russian: сайт

Global Internet Penetration: only 34%

Universal Translator

Machine Translation Now

• Google Translate = 200 million use people daily

• 57th language added was Cherokee (<10k speakers)

• Text-to-Text: Machine Translations (MT), Translation Memories (TM), word pairs, big data, algorithms

• Audio-to-Text: Linguistics, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Computer Learning, Artificial Intelligence?*

60 Years of Speech Recognition = IBM’s Watson wins!

Key Artificial Intelligence Test *

Turing Test: “no discernible difference between conversation generated by a machine and that of an intelligent person.” ~ Alan Turing, UK, 1940s

Success by 2029, says futurist Ray Kurzweil (Singularity) No way, says Mitch Kapor (Lotus Notes) = $20,000 Bet*

Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers & Humans ApartCAPTCHA = 200m words / day

Mobile-cellular Subscriptions = 6.8 billion

* Estimates by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World in 2013 Facts

Mobile Audio Translators

3.3 Billion people live in villages…

…without high-speed connection to the world.

Video4Villages

Video4Villages• Mission to empower 1 Billion women globally with access to health, knowledge, and skills.

• Local languages will be subtitled and voice-dubbed by regional students, workforce trainees, and volunteers using Dotsub’s global platform.

• Health Phone pilot: natal heath care information with videos in local languages available on micro SD chips.

• Video content of any type – in any source language – can then be localized and made available for all.

Massive Online Open Course (MOOCs): Stanford

165k Students | 190 Countries | 40 Languages

The Rosetta Project• 60%-90% of the 6,700 languages in the world predicted to disappear by 2100

• Most have little or no documentation

• The Rosetta Project: public digital library of human languages

• 14,000 pages / >1,500 languages

• Hi-Tech / Hi-Touch Intelligence

• “Artifact for the Future”

The Rosetta Project

Turing Test of Artificial Intelligence by 2029?*

No? Yes?

Peter S. Crosby – peter@dosub.com – 650-533-3313

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