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It is getting feedback, you can correct its results.

by iokanuon 10y ago

dazc 10y ago
But who does that on any scale?
- jumasheff 10y ago
  Occasionally, I submit my translations/validations via Community page: https://translate.google.com/community#en/ky https://translate.google.com/community#en/ky
  - lucb1e 10y ago
    I would, if they'd not store my contributions locked away and assume ownership. Same with Google Maps, they have a contribution feature which I'd use if you could download Google's map under a similar license to OpenStreetMap. For Gmail and stuff I get it, but translate and maps are data projects, not software projects, which take hard work by thousands of people to build. It's extremely hard to build a competitor, and so I refuse to contribute to the existing de facto monopoly.
    - rspeer 10y ago
      There was one time that I tried to submit a correction to Google Maps anyway, not out of generosity but just to fix a navigation glitch, and the team that handles that data was quite rude about it. I was trying to point out that if you're in Cambridge, MA and you voice search for "transit directions to Harvard Square", you should get directions to the well-known public square and commercial hub, not a mall parking lot in Charlestown. After I tried to convey this through an interface that had no option for "you're failing to give directions to this extremely relevant place", they testily told me that the mall data was 100% correct. A team of people who had probably not been to the Boston area questioned who I was to tell them what is or isn't named Harvard Square. Eventually I got it fixed by Google's real bug report process: bringing it up in conversation around people who worked at Google.
    - jumasheff 10y ago
      I am really hopeful, that some day they will give a link to download your contributed translations. But anyway, this service is one of the ways to help your language to prosper.
      - lucb1e 10y ago
        > give a link to download your contributed translations Well, that wouldn't really help anyone. They would need to publish all translation data to help anyone make a competitor, which is not in Google's interest.
- AdBait 10y ago
  It is being fine-tuned, not retrained I guess. Which boils down only changing some layer weights and keeping others constant.
- theDoug 10y ago
  A billion users, one edit at a time.

It is getting feedback, you can correct its results.

dazc 10y ago

But who does that on any scale?

jumasheff 10y ago
Occasionally, I submit my translations/validations via Community page: https://translate.google.com/community#en/ky https://translate.google.com/community#en/ky
- lucb1e 10y ago
  I would, if they'd not store my contributions locked away and assume ownership. Same with Google Maps, they have a contribution feature which I'd use if you could download Google's map under a similar license to OpenStreetMap. For Gmail and stuff I get it, but translate and maps are data projects, not software projects, which take hard work by thousands of people to build. It's extremely hard to build a competitor, and so I refuse to contribute to the existing de facto monopoly.
  - rspeer 10y ago
    There was one time that I tried to submit a correction to Google Maps anyway, not out of generosity but just to fix a navigation glitch, and the team that handles that data was quite rude about it. I was trying to point out that if you're in Cambridge, MA and you voice search for "transit directions to Harvard Square", you should get directions to the well-known public square and commercial hub, not a mall parking lot in Charlestown. After I tried to convey this through an interface that had no option for "you're failing to give directions to this extremely relevant place", they testily told me that the mall data was 100% correct. A team of people who had probably not been to the Boston area questioned who I was to tell them what is or isn't named Harvard Square. Eventually I got it fixed by Google's real bug report process: bringing it up in conversation around people who worked at Google.
  - jumasheff 10y ago
    I am really hopeful, that some day they will give a link to download your contributed translations. But anyway, this service is one of the ways to help your language to prosper.
    - lucb1e 10y ago
      > give a link to download your contributed translations Well, that wouldn't really help anyone. They would need to publish all translation data to help anyone make a competitor, which is not in Google's interest.
AdBait 10y ago
It is being fine-tuned, not retrained I guess. Which boils down only changing some layer weights and keeping others constant.
theDoug 10y ago
A billion users, one edit at a time.