Nvidia launching AI platform to make learning sign language easier
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Imagine having a language tutor who was always on, available anytime to teach you new vocabulary or check up on your progress.
Imagine a language tutor who is always on, available anytime to teach new vocabulary or check up on a student’s progress. On Thursday, Nvidia launched a language learning platform using artificial intelligence that promises to do just that for American Sign Language learners, in partnership with the American Society for Deaf Children and creative agency Hello Monday. The platform, called Signs, features a 3-D avatar to demonstrate signs. Users keep their video cameras on while interacting with the platform and an AI tool provides feedback as they practice the signs. At launch, the platform features 100 distinct signs, but Nvidia hopes to grow that to 1,000. Signs represents just one of the many ways AI is helping to advance work on assistive technologies, or tools designed to help people who are disabled or elderly, or their caretakers. Meta, Google and OpenAI have, for example, used AI to improve features for blind or low-vision users, and Apple introduced AI-enabled eye tracking to help physically disabled users navigate their iPhones. Blind users say those advancements are already making it easier for them to navigate life and work. American Sign Language is the third most prevalent language in the United States, behind English and Spanish, according to the groups behind Signs. The ASL-learning platform is also a reminder that Nvidia has been trying to branch out into more than just the hardware behind AI. Nvidia has become a major supplier to the AI industry by building the chips that most companies use to run the technology, in addition to its own AI models and software platforms. The company’s stock has soared more than 100% in the past year as AI companies who proclaim the technology’s future promise buy up vast amounts of Nvidia’s chips, bringing it to a more than $3.4 trillion valuation.
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