Facebook’s owner Meta has created an artificial intelligence model that can translate 204 written languages and has released it under an open source licence so that anyone can use or improve the software. The company claims that the AI supports more languages and provides higher-quality translations than world-leading software.
The model, called No Language Left Behind, supports dozens more text-based languages than Google Translate, which currently works for 133, and Microsoft Translator, which caters for 110. The AI …
Steve Jobs once said, “The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect creativity with technology.” Every young learner needs creativity today as it helps in visualizing things that don’t exist and making them real for the ‘greater good’ in the world. It not only enables us to recreate our past and shape the present but also build a future of our choice. Today’s world is increasingly becoming competitive in a digitized environment, giving creativity a pivotal moment. Evolving technology has opened a new window of opportunities and changed how ideas are brought to life, spurring a movement for how creative tools are utilized. To sustain a competitive advantage in any creative field, it’s necessary for aspirants to have a hands-on experience in the technology-driven tools which help students express their creativity, produce new and valuable ideas, and most significantly, innovate their implementation.
Technology has allowed students to explore their creativity, collaborate, make connections, communicate and produce innovative products and services. Digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), and Internet of Things (IoT) are reshaping how people live, learn, work, and generate ideas. These innovations bridge the gap between supply (of services or products) and consumer demand. Meta has reportedly sued Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese high-tech enterprise, and a Turkish individual for scraping data from Instagram, Facebook and other big tech platforms from the company.
Octopus has claimed to have over a million customer base and it offers scraping services and access to the software which is being used by the customers who can further use it to scrape any website.
For a fee, Octopus customers can launch scraping attacks from its cloud-based platform or hire Octopus to scrape websites directly.
"Octopus offers to scrape data from Amazon, eBay, Twitter, Yelp, Google, Target, Walmart, Indeed, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram," Meta said in a statement late on Tuesday.
Octopus designed the software to scrape data accessible to the user when logged into their accounts.
It included data about their Facebook Friends such as email address, phone number, gender and date of birth, as well as Instagram followers and engagement information such as name, user profile URL, location and number of likes and comments per post.The social network also filed an action against a Turkish-based individual, Ekrem Ates, for using automated Instagram accounts to scrape data from the profiles of over 3,50,000 Instagram users.
These profiles were viewable to logged-in Instagram users.
Ates then published the scraped data on his own websites or "ceclone sites". In the first half of 2021, Meta tracked over 100 different Instagram clone sites.
"By mid-year, through our disruption efforts, the known clone site ecosystem was reduced by approximately 90 per cent," the company informed.
A clone site is a third-party site that duplicates, in whole or in part, the content of an existing site.
Among other things, clone sites can be used to display people's scraped data, scam people, and damage the credibility of the original site.
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