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Honestly looks to me like the AI translation problem, always 5 years away from being perfect, still mostly crappy, only good enough to have a rough idea of what
by popotamonga 8y ago
Honestly looks to me like the AI translation problem, always 5 years away from being perfect, still mostly crappy, only good enough to have a rough idea of what is being said and with glaring mistakes.
- nostrademons 8y agoAI translation has gotten massively better in the last 10 years. I can read a foreign news site in Chrome, pop "translate this page", and get a reasonable sense of what the article is about and the factual content it contains. The grammar will be off and some sentences will be non-sequitors, but getting to this point is a massive leap forward compared to 15 years ago.
- mikeash 8y agoI feel like a lot of AI problems move directly from “this is so terrible that it’s completely useless” to “this capability is a fact of life that I no longer think about” without ever passing through a conscious “this doesn’t suck so much anymore” stage. Speech recognition and translation both did this. They’re far from perfect but they’re good enough to get a lot of real-world use, but somehow they still have a reputation for being worthless junk.
- arbie 8y agoBiometric authentication and banking fraud detection are two more areas where there has been a step-function improvement in accuracy with little pomp.