Monthly Archives: November 2022

Google plans giant AI language model supporting world’s 1,000 most spoken languages

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a single AI language model that supports the world’s “1,000 most spoken languages.” As a first step towards this goal, the company is unveiling an AI model trained on over 400 languages, which it describes as “the largest language…

Google’s text-to-image AI model Imagen is getting its first (very limited) public outing

Imagen will be available in Google’s AI Test Kitchen app. | Image: Google Google is being extremely cautious with the release of its text-to-image AI systems. Although the company’s Imagen model produces output equal in quality to OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 or Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, Google hasn’t made the system available to the public. Today,…

Google expands flood and wildfire tracking

Flooding in Sanford, Florida, after Hurricane Ian. | Photo by Pauln Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google announced a big expansion of its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services today. It launched a tool called Flood Hub globally, which patches together forecasting across 20 countries. Google is also rolling out improved wildfire tracking to a…

Vote or Die returns

Hi everyone! The next post you read from me will be Situation Bali. But today I’m pleased to bring you a special election edition of Situation Normal. The following is a satirical collaboration with two very funny writers: Dennard Dayle of Extra Evil and Amran Gowani of Field Research. Enjoy! And if you live in…