Just showed the video to my wife who is also a translator (though usually FROM Hebrew TO English rather than the other way around) and she also was not very imp

Just showed the video to my wife who is also a translator (though usually FROM Hebrew TO English rather than the other way around) and she also was not very impressed with how robotic the chatGPT translation was. This is the kind of translation quality you could already get out of Google Translate and the like. With regards to the chess-playing dog analogy: it is anecdotal evidence but certainly in the company I've been contracting for they've been very excited about translating the website in 24 different languages with chatGPT alone. This is based on the CTO playing around with chatGPT translations for 30 minutes and thinking they were "quite OK". IMO this would be like entering the dog into a serious chess competition and then taking out a loan to bet on the dog winning any prizes. Machine translation is not on a professional level yet, even with chatGPT. TBH it is difficult to see how the current LLM based approach would succeed in proper translation work, since almost by definition things like puns and clever wordplay are not going to be the most likely tokens for a model to predict.