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That's an old German dialect. Google Translate has not been trained on it.
by spacehacker 10y ago
That's an old German dialect. Google Translate has not been trained on it.
- WalterBright 10y agoIt's a 1940s era letter. Has German changed that much? English hasn't.
- lorenzhs 10y agoYeah, conversational German has changed quite a bit. It's less formal nowadays, and many expressions have changed. The GP isn't referring to a regional dialect, though - more like an older revision, in software terms ;)
- spacehacker 10y agoGerman has not changed a lot since then, but perhaps more than English. I mistook some of the garbled words for some local/old dialect. The transcription is just really bad, but the original also seems to contain a lot of abbreviations.
- WalterBright 10y ago> The transcription is just really bad I was afraid of that. It's because: 1. it's in a mix of cursive Suetterlin script and more modern forms. Many letters can only be distinguished if you know the context. 2. my German is limited to a few hundred words. 3. she didn't write very clearly, the last two letters of a word tended to be just a line :-) But I can get far enough to get the general sense of what the letters were saying. The translations posted here, however, show how limited machine translation still is, and hence how far we still are from the singularity.
- spacehacker 10y agoI am not sure this tells us that the singularity is very far away. It just tells us that this particular system is still not universal. I mean, perhaps there are really only a couple of components missing to make it a general AI system (e.g. an associative working memory, ability to attend to parts of the text multiple times). It is hard to quantify how difficult it would be to invent these components. It could be 5 years or 50.