As the world’s biggest technology competition yet dawns, there’s no doubt that the world is ablaze with AI fever, with thousands of studies published every month, and new AI solutions arriving in droves every week. Competition to develop models containing several thousand billion parameters is taking place between technology giants, governments and multi-billion-dollar research institutes. While serious experts are already talking about signs of artificial general intelligence, the technology’s capabilities are shaking up our once-safe human, social, economic and moral systems, so it’s no wonder we feel lost in this wealth of information.
Among other things, ITBN Conf-Expo 2023 aims to correct this confusion, as more than 100 presentations over two days between October 11 and 12 will help visitors understand what is going on around them.
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Exhibition: The translation profession may cease to exist in less than three yearsPhotography: Peter Papajcik / Index
MI is the future, that’s not a question
While we were there, Igor Zakharov, a researcher at the University of Zurich, and Salomon John, an information security consultant, held a roundtable discussion led by Christina Pomera about deepfakes, what we would call authentic today and what effects disinformation can have. If you missed this yesterday, don’t worry, on Thursday National University of Public Service Associate Professor Dr. Agnes Wieselski will also give a lecture on a similar topic, and the specialist has previously been interviewed by Index.
ITBN Conf-Expo occupies all levels of Groupama Arena, so there is plenty to see between the two shows, and several companies have set up stands in the arcades, where interested hostesses await with various games, innovations and giveaways. Here, for example, you can take a photo of yourself with a robot, while at another point you can put on the shoes of Eleven and Vecna, the heroes of Stranger Things, for a moment – you can move a ball using a device. Which measures brain activity and heart rate and can be placed on your head and ears.
The translation profession may go bankrupt in just three years
BrainBridge also displayed a very interesting device, wowing visitors with their AI-based translator. The device represents a completely new level of real-time translation, and its quality is in no way comparable to ordinary interfaces such as Google Translate.
The device, which uses iFLYTEK’s speech recognition, machine translation and speech synthesis technology, reacts to the text heard in less than a second and immediately begins translating it into the selected language with particularly high accuracy. When asked why it couldn’t all be an app, Humur Fatima, founder of BrainBridge, replied that the technology was still too big to transfer to a smartphone. By the way, the AI-powered servers are located in Frankfurt, Germany, with which the Smart Communicator communicates online, but can also translate offline in 19 languages.
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Exhibition: The translation profession may cease to exist in less than three yearsPhotography: Peter Papajcik / Index
In addition to direct speech, the device can also translate from images, also with such a quality that you can’t tell at all, or barely, that it was not done by humans, but by artificial intelligence. For this reason, we had a question about what will happen to professional translators in the future – as their work is increasingly replaced by artificial intelligence. Fatima’s humor responded to this,
The profession may lose its meaning within 3-5 years. Thanks to the rapid development of artificial intelligence, language barriers will collapse.
Uploading a document of several hundred pages to an AI translator will be much faster and cheaper than visiting the translator. In addition to all this, the company’s other product, the Smart Dictionary Pen, has also been a huge success, able to digitize, read and translate texts in a way that you can drag over them like a highlighter. According to Humor, this can be a great help not only for children learning to read, but also for the blind and visually impaired.
Still worth a visit
As we mentioned before, ITBN Conf-Expo 2023 is not over yet, and today you can also meet many presentations and exhibitors at the Groupama Arena. Accurate program plan By clicking here can reach
(Cover photo: Peter Papajcik / Index)
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