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> "Almost overnight, the quality of [Google's] translations skyrocketed." In certain languages, and still dependent on the human brain to reparse the not-quite-
by DiThi 9y ago
> "Almost overnight, the quality of [Google's] translations skyrocketed." In certain languages, and still dependent on the human brain to reparse the not-quite-gibberish into something that makes sense.
But it happened replacing a system carefully crafted for 10 years, for another one that barely needed a couple of months to get better than the old one. And it can be made better than google's, today: https://www.deepl.com/translator https://www.deepl.com/translator
> "Driverless cars soon" - and flying ones, too, "in production in a few years" for a century now.
We had driverless car prototypes for a century? Wow. /s
- Piskvorrr 9y ago- Fair point. Conflating machine learning with strong AI (as evidenced on the machine translation example) still dubious. - We had flying cars promised for a century, "any year now." Very similar status to "level 5 autonomous driving any moment now, don't look at the edge cases."
- DiThi 9y ago"Promised" but without any workable and remotely affordable prototype. It may happen soon, though: https://lilium.com/ https://lilium.com/ I see both hand in hand. I don't think it will take off (metaphorically) without mandatory self driving AI near populations.