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Published on Nov 8, 2012 by <http://www.youtube.com/user/MicrosoftResearch> MicrosoftResearch Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into computer-generated Chinese language. The breakthrough is patterned after deep neural networks and significantly reduces errors in spoken as well as written translation. From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:18 AM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] AI university Language would be an issue in China -- most science students there can grok written English, but spoken English lectures are often a problem. One would need to have subtitles done, or a running Chinese translation... I'm working on an edited AGI textbook, as one among many background projects -- hopefully to be done in mid-2013.... If so I've mused about the idea of doing a MOOC (massive open online course) on AGI, probably in Spring 2014 ... maybe affiliated with Hong Kong Poly U or the University of Addis Ababa ... However, I haven't been thinking of this as a business venture, just as a nonprofit offering... Anyway there certainly is room for multiple AI/AGI online courses... -- Ben On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:09 PM, YKY (Yan King Yin, 甄景贤) <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, I remember some discussions about starting an AI / AGI university course by Pei Wang. I think there's a great market for that in Asia because the education system here is really inadequate for the large population size. We can make this happen as a business venture. It shouldn't be too hard to pull off, finding professors, etc. And it has a lot of growth potential into other academic areas... We just need to start lean at the beginning. I see the problem in places like China and India is that there are too few academic seats for too many potential students, resulting in abnormally tough selection. Anther goal is to enable more people to do (AGI or other) research at university level. Any thoughts? YKY AGI | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-c2d57280> | Modify Your Subscription <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-c2d57280> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-c2d57280> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-c2d57280> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-c2d57280> -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-c2d57280> AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-c2d57280> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-c2d57280> ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
