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Do you buy books translated with Google? 67 years have passed and we still need translation for many applications. That’s not an indictment of the technology
by thatjoeoverthr 5y ago
Do you buy books translated with Google?
67 years have passed and we still need translation for many applications.
That’s not an indictment of the technology; only of the extreme optimism.
- jjk166 5y agoThat's an economics issue, not a technology one. Books are mass market items where it makes sense to translate it once and sell the translation thousands of times. Putting a whole book into a translation software would generally be more laborious than tracking down an edition in the language of choice. But in 1954 there were no web pages and reading articles or papers published in foreign languages was extremely rare. Nowadays, these are all translated instantaneously for free by modern web browsers with reasonable fidelity. And odds are these make up the overwhelming majority of the foreign language material a modern person consumes.