Here you can see a presentation given by Rakuten Institute of Technology representatives where Viki’s Learn Mode is shown as one of their achievements. As well, you can see that we on Viki, same as our viewers, are a part of some important language-learning experiments, which I personally like.
While in this presentation, starting from slide 49, you see the AI development also goes into the direction of speech recognition. Which is exactly what we discussed was lacking in French translations in order to at least define gender which needs to be used in the proper translation.
Another interesting outside view of our community and how we perceive the “suggestion tool box” can be found here. (P.S. I’m happy they know they do freak us out sometimes.)
And for those interested in brief recent history of Rakuten:
Dear, I don’t think we can be replaced by machines for at least 5 years. I base that on the bot’s own performance.
