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This is also the story of the past several millenia of "progress" in human translation between natural languages. You trust a human translator because their ab
by franga2000 4y ago
This 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.