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I think it was around 2018 when Google Translate translated Chinese 万 (ten thousand) to “million” for me, making the stats I was looking at completely nonsensic
by oefrha 3y ago
I think it was around 2018 when Google Translate translated Chinese 万 (ten thousand) to “million” for me, making the stats I was looking at completely nonsensical. I was shocked it managed be so wrong about something so basic. I wouldn’t call it trustworthy.
- killingtime74 3y agoThis is why for things that matter, human translators will always have a job.
- falcor84 3y agoThat's a big leap of faith from one example to "always"
- killingtime74 3y agoMaybe they're not more accurate but more for assignment of responsibility. Just from my experience of legal system, official documents and i8n
- londons_explore 3y agoI hired some human translators to translate electronics datasheets, and found they typically did a worse job than machine translation. Neither were good results, but the machine did better with highly technical descriptions where accuracy matters eg. ("The n_reset pulse must be at least 18 us long, be asserted for 4 or more rising clock edges, and rise at a rate not exceeding 20 V/us")
- raxxorraxor 3y agoIt does that regularly for any numeric values in other languages too, especially also those that use different decimal symbols than standard English. You really have to check the numbers yourself.