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> and it sure does a real good job of sounding convincing, but if you don't understand the code there's no way to know if what it's saying is accurate This is
by naniwaduni 4y ago
> and it sure does a real good job of sounding convincing, but if you don't understand the code there's no way to know if what it's saying is accurate
This is also the story of the past decade of "progress" in machine translation between natural languages.
- franga2000 4y agoThis is also the story of the past several millenia of "progress" in human translation between natural languages. You trust a human translator because their ability has been partially verified by an authority (language certificate) and many people have employed their services with few complaints. Similarly, you trust a translation program because it was partially verified (hidden test cases) and many people use it with an acceptable amount of complaints (given its convenience).
- naniwaduni 4y agoFalse equivalence. It may not be any easier for you to verify a human translator's output, but that's a far cry from being structurally incentivized to produce output which appears fluent in the target language at the expense of presenting confidently wrong.