Google Translate adds Cantonese support, thanks to AI advancement
The Google Translate app has been expanded to include Cantonese, thanks to generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements. In 2022, Google began using Zero-Shot Machine Translation to expand its pool of supported languages. The machine learning model learns to translate into another language without ever seeing an example, Google said in a Thursday blog post. Now it is using AI to expand the number of supported languages. It added 110 new languages this week, in its largest-ever expansion, thanks to its PaLM 2 large language model. Users of the app may now translate between Cantonese – s...