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I can see that being true for the top 5% (arbitrarily chosen small %) of difficult translations with professional requirements, but I think for the vast majorit
by twojacobtwo 4y ago
I can see that being true for the top 5% (arbitrarily chosen small %) of difficult translations with professional requirements, but I think for the vast majority of day-to-day translation between the major languages (maybe only within the same language family), it is already sufficient and improving.
I only have the anecdata of my friends and myself, but we have yet to encounter a casual conversation type translation that DeepL or Google translate have failed on for Spanish <-> English <-> French. Granted, it doesn't always return the most optimal translation, but it has always given the intended core idea.
- sitkack 4y agoExactly! ChatGPT might not replace search (entirely), but for many many use cases, it has already replaced search. When pure machine translation was starting out, there were lots of similar posts about it how it can't YYY, but in short amount of time it has become very effective. ChatGPT for me is a much better StackOverflow. In fact, I'd rather people be asking and answering SO style question in a format that is easier for machines to understand. ChatGPT is better at searching for a concept, if it was unencumbered, I could better constrain the concept space it was searching over.
- twojacobtwo 4y agoOh, I see. I completely missed the tone/intent of your original post. I'm in complete agreement with you there. Thank you for elaborating.