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To be fair, translation today is significantly better than sixty years ago. For one, the output is often usable as-is, and with some tweaking is even better. I
by astrodust 11y ago
To be fair, translation today is significantly better than sixty years ago. For one, the output is often usable as-is, and with some tweaking is even better.
I've known several people that have learned English by leaning heavily on automated translation until they got a firmer handle on it. If you tried that in the 1970s you'd still be trying to figure out what the word "the" means.
- Piskvorrr 11y agoSure, it's better - in the "pre-MT" and "post-MT" systems (although it's called "crowdsourcing" these days). For standalone MT, the output is just-about-recognizable; nowhere near the babel-fish-like gadget WSJ is presenting as "just about to happen."