Have you ever heard that when you have to explain a joke it loses its grace? Well, Google seems not, because at its annual I/O conference they announced Pathways Language Model (PaLM) an AI that understands jokes and has the ability to analyze the nuances of natural language. Find out more in this note!
the annual conference Google I/Oan event dedicated to technology developers, showcased various products and news, including the Google Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel Watch, the Google Pixel tablet, Android 13, among other things. However, something that went unnoticed was the AI of him called Pathways Language Model (PaLM), who can now understand jokes.
Something that characterizes humans (at least some) is humor. To make jokes, jokes or sarcastic comments it is necessary to understand some subtleties of language and behavior. For example, in a stand-up, when a comedian says something sarcastically, most of the time his audience understands it, either because of the tone or because they know the humor of that person. It is something that we are learning to detect over time.
However, the developers of Google They were working on the algorithms of PaLM and made it possible for me to understand jokes. And that’s not all, but it can also explain them. In a blog post, the technology company showed and explained how this AI understands a joke that is not found on the Internet.
Even this is not the central objective of PaLM, but this AI understands humor thanks to its ability to analyze the nuances of natural language and the queries made to it. Which means that Google you can get answers to complex questions faster and more accurately in more languages. This would help to interact more fluidly, for example if you find information in a language that is not yours, you could ask questions about it in another.
On the other hand, during the conference, the CEO of Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Sundar Pichai, took the stage and spoke about the frustration that some people who speak less well-known languages face when they want to find answers in their language. Surely what they are looking for is somewhere online, but it is probably in English or Spanish.
Given this, Pichai gave an example and asked PaLM in Bengali which pizza toppings are popular in New York. The model can find the answer in English and translate it to the person in Bengali. “One day, we hope to be able to answer questions on more topics in whatever language you speak, making knowledge even more accessible on Search and across Googlesaid the CEO of Alphabet.
Till the date, PaLM is the largest AI model in Google and is trained on 540 billion parameters. You can generate code from text, answer a math problem, and explain a joke. It does this through thought chain prompts, which can describe multi-step problems as a series of intermediate steps.
In this way, Google outperformed all the AIs we saw in millions of sci-fi movies that never seemed to understand jokes and went into orbit with TARSartificial intelligence that we saw next to Matthew McConaughey in interstellar. But let’s remember that this movie takes place in the year 2090, so we’re good to go.