{"id":57077,"date":"2016-10-11T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T13:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=57077"},"modified":"2016-10-11T14:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:42:02","slug":"duolingo-introduces-chatbots-to-hone-your-conversational-skills-starr-from-dsc-this-could-be-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/10\/11\/duolingo-introduces-chatbots-to-hone-your-conversational-skills-starr-from-dsc-this-could-be-huge\/","title":{"rendered":"Duolingo introduces chatbots to hone your conversational skills [Starr]; From DSC: This could be huge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/duolingo-introduces-chatbots-to-improve-your-language-skills\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Duolingo introduces chatbots to hone your conversational skills<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from cnet.com by Michelle Starr<br \/>\n<em>The free language-learning app is now letting you practise your conversational skills on real live bots.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Free app Duolingo is a great way to learn the basics of a new language, with small daily lessons that gradually increase your skills, with rewards for progressing. Now the service has added a new feature that&#8217;s a little different from the back-and-forth translation &#8212; text-based chatbots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">These are aimed at helping you improve your conversational skills and skills you might use in real life, such as ordering food, visiting a tourist attraction, shopping for clothing or catching a cab. A variety of scenarios will see you learning how to follow a set of directions, or talk with a doctor. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/bots.duolingo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-s-object-id=\"articleBody\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Duolingo chatbot Web page<\/a>, these bots are programmed to react to thousands of different responses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bots.duolingo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-57078 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DuolingoBots-Oct2016.jpg\" alt=\"duolingobots-oct2016\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DuolingoBots-Oct2016.jpg 690w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DuolingoBots-Oct2016-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bots.duolingo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-57082 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DuolingoBots2-Oct2016.jpg\" alt=\"duolingobots2-oct2016\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DuolingoBots2-Oct2016.jpg 805w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DuolingoBots2-Oct2016-150x141.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DuolingoBots2-Oct2016-768x724.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/10\/duolingo-chatbot-video\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Duolingo\u2019s new chatbots help you brush up on your foreign language conversation skills<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from techcrunch.com by Anthony Ha<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"A Neural Network for Machine Translation, at Production Scale\" href=\"https:\/\/research.googleblog.com\/2016\/09\/a-neural-network-for-machine.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Neural Network for Machine Translation, at Production Scale<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from research.googleblog.com, posted by Quoc V. Le &amp; Mike Schuster, Research Scientists, Google Brain Team<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nTen years ago, we announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.googleblog.com\/2006\/04\/statistical-machine-translation-live.html\" target=\"_blank\">launch of Google Translate<\/a>, together with the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Statistical_machine_translation#Phrase-based_translation\">Phrase-Based Machine Translation<\/a> as the key algorithm behind this service. Since then, rapid advances in machine intelligence have improved our <a href=\"https:\/\/research.googleblog.com\/2012\/08\/speech-recognition-and-deep-learning.html\" target=\"_blank\">speech recognition<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/research.googleblog.com\/2014\/09\/building-deeper-understanding-of-images.html\" target=\"_blank\">image recognition<\/a> capabilities, but improving machine translation remains a challenging goal. Today we announce the Google Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT), which utilizes state-of-the-art training techniques to achieve the largest improvements to date for machine translation quality. Our full research results are described in a new technical report we are releasing today: \u201c<i><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1609.08144\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u2019s Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation<\/a><\/i>\u201d [1].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jOLa-LdidQU\/V-qV2oJn1aI\/AAAAAAAABPg\/-6OhKKPhxT89Vs9HhyKMEnyG_0ncWGjJQCLcB\/s1600\/image00.png\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duolingo introduces chatbots to hone your conversational skills &#8212; from cnet.com by Michelle Starr The free language-learning app is now letting you practise your conversational skills on real live bots. 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