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Given the prominent mentions of OpenAI I'm going to guess this doesn't use actual human translators but instead relies on machine translations using OpenAI? Th
by hnbad 3y ago
Given the prominent mentions of OpenAI I'm going to guess this doesn't use actual human translators but instead relies on machine translations using OpenAI?
This is literally what created a drastic decrease in the overall quality of Duolingo. I wouldn't trust an app like this if it's relying on machine translations, AI or not. Especially when it comes to learning phrases and real-world examples. Translation is hard. Machine translation is even harder. Machine translation for languages with limited sample sizes (e.g. "Sanskrit an Hawaiian") is nearly impossible.
The only way to make this thing pass an even remotely reasonable bar for quality would be to hire humans to train it but at the rates required to keep this thing profitable that borders on exploitation.
- barrell 3y agoIdeally we're not creating any of the translations ourselves - although of course we support machine translation. Our goal is to turn any native (or professionally translated) material into language learning materials. We also have lots of ideas for 'Humans in the loop', verification, etc. But while we use AI for _a lot_ of things, we're trying to stay as far away from 'generate some Sanskrit' or 'translate <english text> to Sanksrit'