When Chris talks about the work that he does with technology and how it helps accelerate Bible translation, some people ask if Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used. There are a few of his colleagues who are experts in AI, and they have been researching appropriate ways to use AI in their work. Here is an article by one of these experts, Dr. Daniel Whitenack, who used AI to automatically translate “Wash your hands” in 500+ languages.
TLDR – I used multilingual unsupervised methods to train cross-lingual word embeddings for over 500 languages. These embeddings allowed me to extract components of the phrase “wash your hands” from existing target language documents. I then combined these components to generate something close to the phrase “wash your hands” in 510 languages not currently supported in any public translation platform.
https://datadan.io/blog/wash-your-hands
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