Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence program may be best known for building AplhaGO, which beat one of the world’s best Go players, but the technology has numerous applications in the field of science and could prove especially helpful to the hearing impaired.
Researchers from Oxford University and DeepMind teamed up to create an AI system trained using 5000 hours of BBC videos, which contained 118,000 sentences. It managed to outperform a professional lip-reader who provides services for UK courts.
