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1 month ago | 
nature.com | Ariel Goldstein |Haocheng Wang |Zaid Zada |Samuel A. Nastase |Michael Brenner |Yossi Matias | +2 more
AbstractThis study introduces a unified computational framework connecting acoustic, speech and word-level linguistic structures to study the neural basis of everyday conversations in the human brain. We used electrocorticography to record neural signals across 100 h of speech production and comprehension as participants engaged in open-ended real-life conversations. We extracted low-level acoustic, mid-level speech and contextual word embeddings from a multimodal speech-to-text model (Whisper).
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1 month ago | 
blog.google | Yossi Matias |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat |Kent Walker
Last week, at the Lake Nona Impact Forum for advancing global health, I discussed the potential of AI to meaningfully improve healthcare and advance science. Our recent AI breakthroughs provide unprecedented opportunities to make healthcare more accessible, personalized and effective for everyone, and to significantly accelerate scientific discovery.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Yossi Matias
2 hours agoNew glaucoma treatment may save visionResearchers have discovered a new way to treat glaucoma. Four million Americans suffer from glaucoma, an incurable eye disease that slowly degrades …4 hours agoWhat states are the most dangerous for LGBTQ+ people?
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
blog.google | Yossi Matias
We’re expanding flood forecasting to over 100 countries and making our breakthrough AI model available to researchers and partners.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Yossi Matias
10 hours agoReclaim storage and keep your inbox running smoothly with these easy Gmail clutter-reducing tips. One of the Gmail accounts in the Aamoth household just started showing the dreaded “Account storage is full” banner, which means it’s time for a good scrubbing. It’s not surprising: With all the emails, …
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
blog.google | Yossi Matias |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat |Kent Walker
We live in a golden age for research. Never before have we had the opportunity to make such rapid advances in computer science, and apply them so quickly to global-scale challenges, in a way that can help people in their daily lives. Since the start of my career, I’ve been excited by the “magic cycle” of research, where real-world challenges motivate new foundational and applied research, which in turn has a positive impact in the real world.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
en.globes.co.il | Yossi Matias |Assaf Gilead
Sources inform "Globes" that Prof. Yossi Matias, who for the past eighteen years has headed Google’s research and development center in Israel, is expected to move to Silicon Valley to run Google Research, the company’s global research activity. Matias is on the computer science faculty at Tel Aviv University, and was previously a research scientist at Bell Labs and a visiting professor at Stanford. He joined Google in 2006 to set up its R&D facility in Israel.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
blog.google | Yossi Matias |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat |Kent Walker
People turn to Google for accurate and helpful information during crises to help them protect themselves and their families. Floods are the most common type of natural disaster and nearly 1.5 billion people, or some 19 percent of the world population, are directly exposed to substantial risks from severe flood events worldwide. Flooding also exacts an immense material toll, causing around $50 billion in annual global economic damages.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
blog.google | Yossi Matias |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat |Kent Walker
Last year at Google Health’s Check Up event, we introduced Med-PaLM 2, our large language model (LLM) fine-tuned for healthcare. Since introducing that research, the model has become available to a set of global customer and partner organizations that are building solutions for a range of uses — including streamlining nurse handoffs and supporting clinicians’ documentation.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
blog.google | Yossi Matias |Kate Brandt |VP Engineering |Sundar Pichai
Later this month at COP28, global leaders will gather in Dubai to build momentum for climate action. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecasts that the world needs to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030. We believe that artificial intelligence (AI) and collective action can help achieve this goal and create a sustainable future for everyone.
