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The employee generally knows they fucked up and can escalate the issue. Discussion on whether or not this actually happens will follow in comments below.
by csours 3y ago
The employee generally knows they fucked up and can escalate the issue. Discussion on whether or not this actually happens will follow in comments below.
- em-bee 3y agoor if they don't know at the time, they may eventually realize it later and react accordingly.
- ben_w 3y agoSometimes. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7702913.stm https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7702913.stm
- Vicinity9635 3y ago[dead]
- nitwit005 3y agoI brought up translation as a risk with a friend. If you pay someone for a translation these days, there is a chance they will just feed it to some AI to cut costs. You'll have no way to validate yourself if you don't speak the language.
- csours 3y agoThe shape of managing the work approaches the work in terms of fractal complexity
- emporas 3y agoJust a chance? I routinely translate hundred pages of pdfs to greek, in 3 minutes. The translation is far from perfect depending the text and it still needs a human in the loop for corrections, but i couldn't imagine translating a 300 pages pdf to greek by hand. There is also the translaxy bot on poe.com which i use to translate english or modern greek to ancient greek. Out of this world good translation. I mean, are humans still employed to translate text? Like an employee doing that job, and only that?
- nitwit005 3y agoHundreds of millions are spent on translators every year. It's a major expense in the EU budget, for example. A lot of people are going to jail for fraud if people aren't actually doing the work.
- emporas 3y agoOh, didn't know about that! Learning something new everyday i guess. Automatic translation works very well for technical documents, but it doesn't work that well for novels. So i thought, most of the translation jobs would be gone already. I think, given a little bit of time, a handful of years, translation will be automated 95% or more, across the board, for every kind of document.
- Anamon 3y agoI know people in the translation business. Automatic translation is out of the question in a lot of businesses and areas. One category would be safety-critical businesses where companies can get into a world of legal hurt if their translations aren't exact (medical, legal, defense, etc.) Saving a few bucks on automatic translations loses its appeal if you really need the text to be correct. The translators will also be liable for wrong translations, also a very important factor for professional clients. Another example would be highly specialised, industry-specific texts with a lot of jargon, for which professional translation offices get you translators who aren't just fluent in the languages, but also knowledgeable about the area the text is about.
- atlasunshrugged 3y agoHave you seen any good translation tool from video to text yet? I'm trying to find something for Estonian to English and having little luck
- ben_w 3y agoDo you mean images in the video like how the Google Translate app can do with the camera, or do you mean the audio within the video?
- input_sh 3y agoDo you usually just pick a person at random when hiring or do you spend some effort looking into their qualifications and references? How's your hypothetical any different now than it would've been in the past 15 or so years of Google Translate's existence?
- iknowstuff 3y agoGoogle translate is nowhere near as good as GPT4 at translation. Especially when given additional context and style instructions.
- nitwit005 3y agoSure, but people get burned despite attempting to be careful all the time. Translation software predates Google translate, and I'm not claiming something has suddenly changed. It's slowly gotten better, and I assume the temptation to only pretend to have human translation will keep growing with it. The safer a scam seems, the more people will try it.
- int_19h 3y agoYou do, actually: feed it to GPT-4 several times in different sessions. When it hallucinates, translations come out obviously different. When it actually knows what it's talking about, they'll match except for minor things like word order and synonyms.