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It's "servicing millions of customer requests a day" or some part of "50,000" (later in the article)? The example doesn't seem compelling to me, it's not rearr

by sgt101 8y ago

It's "servicing millions of customer requests a day" or some part of "50,000" (later in the article)? The example doesn't seem compelling to me, it's not rearranged the delivery, it's not solving any substantial problem in the co-dialog. What does this prove?

yorwba 8y ago
It's possible that it's actually serving millions of requests, if most requests happen outside of customer service calls or if they count each individual utterance in a dialog as a separate request (it probably is a separate request to the backend). On the other hand, maybe someone wrote a description in Chinese that said "several tens of thousands" and someone else had it machine-translated into English. The problem being that "tens of thousands" can also be a symbolic "big number" (like "myriads") and modern English tends to use "millions" as that symbolic number instead. The existence of symbolic numbers is a common source of translation mistakes. For example, I recently came across a Japanese text [45] where Google Translate will turn 一三 into 13 or a thousand, depending on whether you include 「quotation marks」 or not [45] Footnote 45 of https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001850/files/57353_57270.html https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001850/files/57353_57270.html https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=%E3%80%8C%E5%BD%BC%E7%AD%89%E3%81%AF%E4%B8%80%E4%B8%89%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%AE%E7%8E%8B%E3%81%A7%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E3%80%82%E2%80%95%E2%80%95%E5%90%8D%E3%81%AF%E7%A7%98%E3%81%99%E3%81%8C%E3%80%81%E7%9C%9F%E3%81%AB%E7%8E%8B%E3%81%A7%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E3%80%81%E7%8E%8B%E4%BB%A5%E4%B8%8A%E3%81%A7%E3%81%95%E3%81%88%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E2%80%95%E2%80%95%E5%88%A4%E6%96%AD%E3%81%97%E5%AE%9F%E8%A1%8C%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E3%80%82%E5%BD%BC%E7%AD%89%E3%81%AF%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%8A%E3%82%92%E9%AB%98%E3%81%8F%E9%A3%9B%E3%81%B6%E7%BF%BC%E3%82%92%E6%8C%81%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6%E3%80%81%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E3%81%AE%E5%BA%95%E6%B7%B1%E3%81%8F%E6%BD%9C%E3%82%8B%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%95%E3%81%88%E5%87%BA%E6%9D%A5%E3%82%8B%E3%80%82%E3%81%9D%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E5%BD%BC%E7%AD%89%E3%81%AF%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%AD%E3%81%AB%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E5%A0%B4%E6%89%80%E3%82%92%E5%8D%A0%E3%82%81%E3%82%8B%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%82%92%E8%BB%BD%E8%94%91%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E3%80%82%E4%BD%95%E6%95%85%E3%81%AA%E3%82%89%E3%80%81%E5%BD%BC%E7%AD%89%E3%81%AF%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E3%82%92%E4%B8%8A%E5%9B%9E%E3%82%8B%E7%84%A1%E9%99%90%E3%81%AE%E5%8A%9B%E3%82%92%E4%B8%8E%E3%81%88%E3%82%89%E3%82%8C%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E3%81%A0%E3%80%8D https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto...

by sgt101 8y ago

yorwba 8y ago

It's possible that it's actually serving millions of requests, if most requests happen outside of customer service calls or if they count each individual utterance in a dialog as a separate request (it probably is a separate request to the backend). On the other hand, maybe someone wrote a description in Chinese that said "several tens of thousands" and someone else had it machine-translated into English. The problem being that "tens of thousands" can also be a symbolic "big number" (like "myriads") and modern English tends to use "millions" as that symbolic number instead. The existence of symbolic numbers is a common source of translation mistakes. For example, I recently came across a Japanese text [45] where Google Translate will turn 一三 into 13 or a thousand, depending on whether you include 「quotation marks」 or not [45] Footnote 45 of https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001850/files/57353_57270.html https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001850/files/57353_57270.html https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=%E3%80%8C%E5%BD%BC%E7%AD%89%E3%81%AF%E4%B8%80%E4%B8%89%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%AE%E7%8E%8B%E3%81%A7%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E3%80%82%E2%80%95%E2%80%95%E5%90%8D%E3%81%AF%E7%A7%98%E3%81%99%E3%81%8C%E3%80%81%E7%9C%9F%E3%81%AB%E7%8E%8B%E3%81%A7%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E3%80%81%E7%8E%8B%E4%BB%A5%E4%B8%8A%E3%81%A7%E3%81%95%E3%81%88%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E2%80%95%E2%80%95%E5%88%A4%E6%96%AD%E3%81%97%E5%AE%9F%E8%A1%8C%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E3%80%82%E5%BD%BC%E7%AD%89%E3%81%AF%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%8A%E3%82%92%E9%AB%98%E3%81%8F%E9%A3%9B%E3%81%B6%E7%BF%BC%E3%82%92%E6%8C%81%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6%E3%80%81%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E3%81%AE%E5%BA%95%E6%B7%B1%E3%81%8F%E6%BD%9C%E3%82%8B%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%95%E3%81%88%E5%87%BA%E6%9D%A5%E3%82%8B%E3%80%82%E3%81%9D%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E5%BD%BC%E7%AD%89%E3%81%AF%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%AD%E3%81%AB%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E5%A0%B4%E6%89%80%E3%82%92%E5%8D%A0%E3%82%81%E3%82%8B%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%82%92%E8%BB%BD%E8%94%91%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E3%80%82%E4%BD%95%E6%95%85%E3%81%AA%E3%82%89%E3%80%81%E5%BD%BC%E7%AD%89%E3%81%AF%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E3%82%92%E4%B8%8A%E5%9B%9E%E3%82%8B%E7%84%A1%E9%99%90%E3%81%AE%E5%8A%9B%E3%82%92%E4%B8%8E%E3%81%88%E3%82%89%E3%82%8C%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E3%81%A0%E3%80%8D https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto...