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The neural network translation is so fickle, it can fail to accurately translate a three digit number. It gets worse with larger numbers, with errors by orders
by Grue3 10y ago
The neural network translation is so fickle, it can fail to accurately translate a three digit number. It gets worse with larger numbers, with errors by orders of magnitude.
https://translate.google.com/#en/ja/six%20hundred%20sixty-six https://translate.google.com/#en/ja/six%20hundred%20sixty-si...
https://translate.google.com/#en/ja/eleven%20thousand%20one%20hundred%20eleven https://translate.google.com/#en/ja/eleven%20thousand%20one%...
Interestingly I wasn't able to reproduce it with English/Russian translation, maybe they hardcoded it somehow, or maybe neural network for Russian hasn't rolled out yet.
- ucaetano 10y agoIt worked for me in languages other than Japanese. Might be a language-specific problem.
- yongjik 10y agoBefore using neural networks, Google used to translate "백조 한 마리" (one swan) into "100000000000001 swans", because the Korean word for "swan" can be also interpreted as "one hundred trillion". So, "one swan" = "one" + "one hundred trillion" = 100000000000001. And then stick "swans" onto it for good measure. Translation is hard.
- kahnpro 10y agoI've been using it for English/Russian for the past couple years, haven't noticed any change... it's still pretty awful and makes the same mistakes.
- xbmcuser 10y agoThey are supposed to transfer to neural translations today might not have transfered over yet. I used to follow a Russian forums because the developer of the software I used was on them. Would be interesting to see if there are any changes to the translations.
- kalleboo 10y agoLooking at the alternative suggestions on both of those is interesting. For the first, the dash gets interpreted as a "to" as in "six hundred sixty to six". For the second, there's actually a correct translation also suggested!