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More and more AI-powered language tools and applications are appearing. I have noticed this with Spanish: the translations from English are wonderful and skilf

by Shorel 3y ago

More and more AI-powered language tools and applications are appearing. I have noticed this with Spanish: the translations from English are wonderful and skilful about 70% of the time, they could be improved about 25% of the time, and they are completely wrong and misleading the other 5%. This is a rough breakdown, sentence by sentence. The problem is that the 5% of incorrect sentences reduce the usefulness of the other 95%, so that the final translation is perceived as imprecise and lacking in coherence and tone.

madsbuch 3y ago
Can you give just a single example of these 5%?
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- Shorel 3y ago
  Of course. I may be paraphrasing a bit because I did not get the ad today. A recent app that has been spamming ads over my Instagram translates: I don't get it as: No lo obtengo When the correct translation in the context of the sentence is: No lo entiendo All the other sentences in the fragment are correct, from what I noticed at a glance.