Polyglotta -- A Multilingual translator

Olagunju Afeez — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:52:51 +0000

I just developed a multilingual application called Polyglotta which translates any language to another language.

This was a fun-filled, productive experience because I've always been fascinated by how translators like Google Translators works.

The idea to create this app came from a postgraduate class titled Natural Language Processing by Dr. S. Eludiora. He is well known in the field of Natural Language Processing particularly English-Yoruba translation. He challenged us to build an application to translate English language to Yoruba. I asked a question that, can't we create a translator that could work vice-versa? He told us that many Yoruba words don't have direct translation to English language. Since then, I have had it in mind to take up the challenge. This time, doing bidirectional translation between various languages.

Recently, I have little to do thus giving me more time to get my hands dirty, coding. Recently, I suddenly remembered the class. I was instantly inspired to developed the application since the tools to build it are readily available.

As usual, I used Gradio, an SDK to build Graphical User Interface for various applications and I deployed the program on Huggingface spaces. I would delve into the core of the technicalities later.

The application is available under spaces built for Cereus Technologies, my budding Tech Company. You can also find other screens on the organization page on Huggingface.

I want to add more features like audio playback and translation and more languages based on demands. I want you to use the application and give me a feedback which will improve the performance on a long run.

Check the app out here:

Polyglotta: A multilingual translator.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/CereusTech/Polyglotta

My experience with Llama 3.1 70B

Olagunju Afeez — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 22:37:13 +0000

Lately, I have been playing with Llama 3.1, the latest version of the Large Language Model powering Meta AI. I've been able to develop two key applications. I was using it for learning and research purposes until I found a great potential in it as an open source LLM with great capabilities.

The first application I created was a Trivia game on Nigerian Music. The app will ask you questions, after answering, it will award you points. However, I faced some challenges because of Llama 3.1 70B, the model I used paucity of knowledge on Nigerian Music and it's constant hallucination.

Nevertheless, I got my breakthrough application 3 days ago when I developed a Fact-checking application using the LLM. It gave incredible results with no hallucination. You can verify any claim on it, however, it won't be able to verify new claims after its release. Regardless, it is a solid application and I'm super proud of it.

The development of open source models like Llama opens us to infinite possibilities of building various AI applications without any cost or hassle. It's a game-changer in the arms race of AI development.

It's important to note that I am available for all your AI application development concerns. If you have any project in mind, I can help you bring it to fruition as an AI expert.

Find the link to the projects below:

TriviaVilla: Nigerian Music Trivia

Facto: A fast and accurate fact-checker

Forem: Olagunju Afeez

Polyglotta -- A Multilingual translator

My experience with Llama 3.1 70B