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Of course this is all speculative and I never said intricacies of human languages will disappear, but human is extremely adaptive. Historically there already ha
by lifthrasiir 5y ago
Of course this is all speculative and I never said intricacies of human languages will disappear, but human is extremely adaptive. Historically there already had been cases where different languages are used for different social contexts, so we can imagine a similar dichitomy between an informal language (not very amenable to MT) and a formal language (amenable to MT).
- runnerup 5y agoI attempt this when communicating with Chinese parts of my business where English may not be spoken at all. I also don’t know any Chinese. I will generally run my English emails through machine translation back and forth multiple times until I find phrasing and word choices which are “bistable” (I get back the original English). I’ll also usually double check specific critical or unstable words using a variety of translation aids (not machine translation) to ensure any (scope-limited) Chinese I write is actually correct. We do have one native Chinese on my side of the team, and every time I’ve had her check the Chinese she says it’s correct for our technical domain. So we really are already at the point where we can communicate across languages with surprisingly low error rates.
- tsimionescu 5y agoIsn't Chinese actually a best case scenario for machine translation, with huge amounts of text available, and little if any variance (no tenses, no persons, no plural, no declinations)?