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When Babelfish came out in 1997, I used it to do my French homework, while attempting to fix up when it didn't quite get it right or used an idiom that didn't t
by petercooper 4y ago
When Babelfish came out in 1997, I used it to do my French homework, while attempting to fix up when it didn't quite get it right or used an idiom that didn't translate to French. My friend did the same and we were casually warned to stop "whatever it is" we were doing after a couple of weeks ;-) It turned out it was a lot safer to let Babelfish read French than to write it..
As a bit of fun, I recently scanned my daughter's homework and threw it into GPT-3 and while I didn't let her see or use the end results (if she had the idea to do it herself, that's her call, but I find the younger generations are not as computer savvy as the media would like you to think!) it pretty much nailed it without me having to do anything else. It's definitely going to cause changes in the educational system in a way that Babelfish certainly did not.