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Imagine a tutor in a language that is always on. It is available anytime.
On Thursday, Nvidia launched a language learning platform using artificial intelligence that promises to do that for American sign language learners.
The platform called Signs is equipped with a 3D avatar to show your signature. Users will keep their video cameras on while interacting with the platform and provide feedback as AI tools practice signs. At launch, the platform will feature 100 different signs, but Nvidia wants to grow it to 1,000.
Signs represent one of many ways that help AI work with assistive technology, or tools designed to assist disabled people, seniors, or their caretakers. For example, Meta, Google, and Openai use AI to improve blind or low vision users, while Apple introduces AI-enabled vision tracking to allow disabled users to navigate iPhones It was helpful for. Blind users say these advances have already made it easier to navigate life and work.
According to the group behind the sign, American sign language is the third most common language in the United States behind English and Spanish.
The ASL learning platform reminds us that Nvidia is about to fork into more than the hardware behind AI. Nvidia has become a leading supplier in the AI industry by building chips that most companies use to operate their technology, in addition to their own AI models and software platforms. The company’s stock has skyrocketed more than 100% over the past year as AI companies declaring their future promises of technology purchased a huge amount of Nvidia chips and earned a valuation of over $3.4 trillion.
Michael Boone, Nvidia’s trusted AI products manager, said the company is committed to promoting not only corporate customers but also practical applications for technology. “It’s important to generate efforts such as signs because we want to enable ecosystems, not just one company or a set of companies,” Boone said in an interview with CNN.
And ultimately, the increased number of people using AI in all forms is a good fit for Nvidia’s core chip creation business. Some investors have raised concerns over the past few months about whether the tech giant is spending too much on AI infrastructure, including chips, and how long it will take to get the profit from that investment? I’m questioning the following.
Signs are freely available, and ASL speakers can grow their vocabulary with videos of signs that are not yet available on the platform. This data also allows NVIDIA to develop new ASL-related products in the future. For example, it can improve sign recognition in video conferencing software and car gesture control. The company says other developers can also publish the data repository.
For future iterations of signs, Nvidia has sought ways for the team behind the platform to include non-manual signals important to ASL, such as facial expressions and head movements, language slang and regional variations. He said there was.
“Most deaf people are born to hear their parents. By providing accessible tools such as signs to begin early learning in ASL, it is effective with children between 6 and 8 months of age. “New Projects that allow you to open communication channels.
