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> With this update, Google Translate is improving more in a single leap than we’ve seen in the last ten years combined Pretty bold claim

• michael_h 10y ago
  Google Translate is arguably improving substantially with this update. The state of machine translation in general has already been better than Google Translate. The problem with the bleeding-edge systems is that they are not well distributed, no thought has been given to UX/UI, and the people who created them just want to finish their thesis and get out. Also, speed - the systems that eke out another few extra percentage points on accuracy tend to hoover up the CPU cycles, crushing their business case.
  • bonoboTP 10y ago
    > the people who created them just want to finish their thesis and get out You mean it's not an enjoyable thing to work on such systems and at the first opportunity they run away?
    • michael_h 10y ago
      It's enjoyable to work on them, but...there's a limit.