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Tangential: Google's recently released Duplex claims to mimic natural conversation, yet there is not a single translation service that does not sound like a vil
by dandare 8y ago
Tangential: Google's recently released Duplex claims to mimic natural conversation, yet there is not a single translation service that does not sound like a village idiot.
> "Several Tidal customers who have been confronted with these logs pretend to have played songs by the artists as many times as illuminated."
Is translation so much harder, or simply not a priority, or are all the claims about neural networks and language processing exaggerated?
- LoSboccacc 8y agocurrent tech can translate decently a sentence, but a sentence has no context so if there's a double meaning, it becomes a matter of probability to obtain a correct translation. i.e. "I never said she stole my money" there are 7 possible meaning conveyed by stress alone, which will need to be translated differently. also current tech has limits when translating whole pages. paragraphs introduce context and meaning that's later referenced. sentence by sentence translation is bound to lose all of that info along the way. I don't think current neural network used in mapping translations have enough complexity to keep context as they go. they might get there eventually alone as the computer scale or with the help of preprocessors.
- icebraining 8y agoDuplex works because it's limited to a very specific domain. NLP has been working very well in those cases for decades: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17028731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17028731