​Don’t laugh: Google’s Parsey McParseface is a serious IQ boost for computers

​Don’t laugh: Google’s Parsey McParseface is a serious IQ boost for computers

Google has just created possibly the world’s best computer program designed to understand the English language but this cutting-edge technology may just be the tip of the iceberg.

A new theory could be about to unlock the secrets of how naturally human language really works, putting an end to a question that has troubled linguists for more than half a century.

By empowering artificial intelligence with these secrets, it may finally be possible to create a ‘bolloxometer’, which could instantly cut through the rhetoric of language online to determine its reliability.

No more lying politicians. No more lawyers spinning a story. No more advertisers hoodwinking us into buying their products. Just switch on the bolloxometer and watch the truth unfold.

Google researchers are getting a bit of software widely noticed by calling it Parsey McParseface.  They picked the name on a whim after they had failed to come up with one that suited after 18 months of work on the project. It comes after a public vote almost saw a £200 million British polar research vessel named “Boaty McBoatface” after more than 100,000 people voted for the name.

Parsey McParseface has major importance.  Parsing a piece of language correctly is the key to getting the computer to truly understand what language means and to be able to act on it.

Up to now, machine parsers have been limited to working out the ‘parts of speech’ of words and their structural interrelationships within a sentence.  That’s useful.  For example, in speech recognition, the computer can reject analyses of speech sounds that add up to ungrammatical sentences.

But there are problems. The computer cannot easily reject grammatical-but-nonsensical analyses.  And even the best parsers struggle with very long sentences and with unusual constructions and idioms.

Actually the statistical methods had to be adopted because linguistics failed to develop a full set of grammar rules from the ideas of Noam Chomsky .

Read More in telegraf.co.uk or in http://googleresearch.blogspot.bg

 

4 Methods To Make Google Chrome Faster For Web Browsing

4 Methods To Make Google Chrome Faster For Web Browsing

Google Chrome is undisputedly the best and one of the most popular web browser available in the market. According to different surveys, about 25-28 percent people browse the web using Google Chrome. Talking about the speed, benchmark tests put Chrome at the top without any hesitation. To improve the web browsing experience and making it faster, Google has introduced many features like better security measures and new protocols.

Even though Chrome is the fastest web browser available, it’s often bashed for eating up your RAM and slowing down your PC. To make Google Chrome faster than ever, we’re here with some simple tweaks and tricks. After performing these steps, you are bound to experience increased speed in Google Chrome.

For everyday use, Chrome works just fine. But if you are a power user, you can try out few experimental options of Chrome. These tweaks use your PC muscle to make Google Chrome faster improve the performance.

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Future Of The Web: WebAssembly Previews Launched By Google, Mozilla, And Microsoft

Future Of The Web: WebAssembly Previews Launched By Google, Mozilla, And Microsoft

WebAssembly or wasm is an experimental efficient low-level programming language for in-browser client-side scripting, which is currently in development. Its initial aim is to support compilation from C/C++,[1]though other source languages are also intended to be supported. WebAssembly is a portable abstract syntax tree[2] which is designed to be faster to parse than JavaScript, as well as faster to execute.[1] The initial implementation of WebAssembly support in browsers will be based on asm.js[3] and PNaCl.[4] After the minimum viable product (MVP) release, there are plans to support garbage collection[5] which would make WebAssembly a compilation target for garbage collected programming languages like Java and C#. The team working on WebAssembly includes people from Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Apple (who respectively control the four major browsers, Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Safari).[4]

WebAssembly was first announced on 17 June 2015[6] and on 15 March 2016 was demonstrated executing Unity‘s Angry Bots in Firefox,[7] Chrome,[8] and Microsoft Edge.[9]

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Ubuntu Linux Is Coming To Windows 10 — Microsoft Partners With Canonical

Ubuntu Linux Is Coming To Windows 10 — Microsoft Partners With Canonical

Microsoft is kicking off its BUILD 2016 developer conference on March 30. This annual event is known to bring some exciting news for Microsoft fans each year. At this year’s event, Microsoft is expected to show off its newly-found Linux love in a big manner.

According to a new report from ZDNet, Microsoft is likely to announce a partnership between Canonical and Microsoft that would aim to bring Ubuntu on Windows 10.

This functionality won’t be limited to running Bash shell on Windows 10. With this development, users will be able to run Ubuntu simultaneously with Windows operating system. This will be making Ubuntu an integrated part of Windows 10, not just some virtual machine.

At the moment, details are not revealed regarding this arrangement. It’s expected that Ubuntu will run on top of a foundation of native Windows libraries. It should be noted that Microsoft quietly introduced Linux subsystem in a new Windows 10 Redstone build.

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Microsoft continues sneaking its way into Android

Microsoft continues sneaking its way into Android

Microsoft and Google are technically enemies in this competitive market, but the tech industry has shown us time and again that it is not a place where grudges are often held. Competitors could be battling each other in court while also signing deals to manufacture parts for each other. Simultaneously kissing and slapping enemies has become a habit around here.

Nevertheless, Microsoft and Google have a love/hate relationship that has been leaning more towards the sweet side lately. Microsoft can diss the Android OS all they want, but they can’t deny their own platform and devices are not really taking off. Windows Phone continues to hold only 2.57% of the world’s mobile OS market share, which is, simply put, quite insignificant compared to the big guys.

Google Cloud Speech API — You Can Power Any App With Google’s Speech Recognition Software

Google Cloud Speech API — You Can Power Any App With Google’s Speech Recognition Software

Google has announced its Cloud Speech API, the Google’s new machine learning service bundled with big data, data analytics and many other exciting features. Moreover, some of these services have been open-sourced. To get started you can visit cloud.google.com.

Data and data analytics are becoming one of the most innovative and fertile areas of IT industry because they offer deep insight into the consumer behavioral changes and thus suggesting a way for the company to increase sales and productivity.