> You can point your phone at printed Chinese text and have it read aloud to you in English. Yeah, but it's not really that good. Machine translation has impro

> You can point your phone at printed Chinese text and have it read aloud to you in English. Yeah, but it's not really that good. Machine translation has improved a great deal, but reading those translations actually involves bringing a lot of human intelligence to the table, "Oh I bet, 'maximum fire alarms spread' on this menu actually means 'very hot sauce'" If all you're claiming is that ML models exist and have useful commercial applications, then I don't think anyone is going to argue against that point. But a lot of these AI promoters go further: in the case of the LessWrong folks some of them are convinced that a superintelligent machine capable of enslaving humanity is right around the corner.