gender

Trans people are already terrified after seeing a lot more hate

Following US President Donald Trump’s executive order on transgender identity, the US Department of Homeland Security said that it “has no plans to take any action” regarding online gender identity services such as Grindr. However, it added that it is “deeply concerned” and “concerned” about the order. It further said that there is “no question that trans individuals have a legal right to self-identify”.

It is possible for MetaAI to translate a speech into dozens of languages

Researchers have used a semi-Supervised Learning technique to train their text-to-text translation model. The team of researchers collected around 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio before being pre- trained on the part of the model that is responsible for translation. They analysed whether the model over-represented one gender when translating gender-neutral phrases into gendered languages.